BLACKFOOT — Anything can happen on the track at the Indian Relay Races, and spectators at this year’s Eastern Idaho State Fair witnessed just that. On Sept. 4, chaos erupted with two dramatic wrecks captured on video by Weed Media that have since gone viral.

One incident knocked a veteran rider unconscious, and the other resulted in a horse being put down.

Fort Hall native JonMarc Skunkcap, riding for his newly formed team White Knife — named after his 9-year-old son, Korbin White Knife Atkins — was leading the race and preparing for his second exchange when calamity struck.

Skunkcap collided with fellow rider Adrien Honena, a crash that sent him hard to the ground. While Honena and the horses avoided serious injury, Skunkcap took the brunt of the fall to his head and neck. He was knock

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