Alright then, hands up. Who wants to see my sister falling off a horse?

Oh now that's nasty. How could you? But since you're so keen...

Thank the Lord for professional photographers at children's sports events, capturing those moments that big brothers throughout the land would otherwise have missed. Poor Alice. This is one of a series of photos which trace, like a flipbook, the slow parting of ways between horse and human.

Of course I wouldn't be introducing this public humiliation if she wasn't actually, secretly, quite good. She and fellow sister Lucy even own 'virtual' horses on Howrse.com, as though a real horse weren't enough. Feed it (Alice's is, apparently, 'too fat'), take it over the gallops, train it up... it's like a twenty-first century four-legged Tamagotchi.

One wonders if a virtual horse can throw you off. I'm sure Alice will let us know.