Mike Pence’s boast that he was bitten by a champion racing horse so hard he “almost collapsed” has been rejected by the manager of the farm.
The vice president said the famed Triple Crown winner American Pharoah nipped his arm during a visit to Ashford Stud in Kentucky last year.
“I just gritted my teeth and smiled,” Mr Pence told House Republicans in Baltimore on Friday. “Because you know what, in our line of work, you’re gonna get bit sometimes but you keep fighting forward.”
The audience cheered his story but Dermot Ryan, who was present during the meeting billed as “VP meets AP”, told the McClatchy news group that he did not see any bite.
“If he gave someone a nasty bite, I’d know it,” said Mr Ryan, America manager for racehorse-breeding company Coolmore.
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