{"id":232828,"date":"2026-04-15T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232828\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:13:10","slug":"video-tampa-bay-rodeo-competitor-run-over-by-horses-while-exciting-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232828\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tampa Bay Rodeo competitor run over by horses while exciting the crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rodeo confirmed the rider is okay.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A viral video circulating online shows a cowboy getting struck by a horse while participating in the Tampa Bay Rodeo.<\/p>\n<p>Video from an event on Saturday at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds in Dover shows competitor TK McNair attempting to excite the crowd after falling off his horse and performing a backflip off of the guard rails.<\/p>\n<p>After landing the flip, several other horses are seen heading towards McNair before one of them runs him over, causing the crowd to gasp audibly.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rodeo officials confirmed McNair is okay.<\/p>\n<p>McNair later took to social media and seemingly had a fun time reading comments reacting to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THE INTERNET STAYS UNDEFEATED BUT HEY THE GRIT DON&#8217;T QUIT AND IM READY FOR MY NEXT RIDE IN MAY,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/duvalcowboy\/reel\/DXC_RxQTNVq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">his Instagram caption says.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rodeo confirmed the rider is okay. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A viral video circulating online shows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-232828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}