Page "Emily Davison" Paragraph 13

Pathé News captured the incident on film.

The film, taken at Tattenham Corner, shows Davison stepping out onto the racecourse just as the leading horses sweep by.

She then is seen standing in the middle of the racecourse as two more horses pass on the inside of her, and on the film suddenly she takes a lunge at one of the last few trailing horses.

This was Anmer.

The film is unclear but it is possible that by this point she has taken the banner of the WSPU out from where it was concealed in her clothing.

She is knocked to the ground unconscious.

Eyewitnesses at the time were divided as to her motivation, with many of the opinion that she had simply intended to cross the track, believing that all horses had passed.

Others reported that she had attempted to pull down the King's horse.