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When you watch a horse race and the horse falls and the jockey hits the ground also, what/whom do you worry about first/most.

I first look at the Jockey and see how they are doing and then see how the horse is doing.

I don't watch horse racing, so neither. I voted "why is Barbaro getting so much press" after all, it is an animal. When a cow gets killed and butchered, we don't see that on the news, and no one talks about it. Why should this be any different? I'm not saying I hate animals or anything, but there is no need to put it all over the news.

I voted "I'm special", but only because my mommy told me I was

I honestly have seen more horseracing on ESPN than live!

Not really sure what the point of this is

Other than the occasional Triple Crown event, I don't watch horse racing. Can't remember the last time I saw a horse and jockey fall simultaneously. I guess I'd think about the jockey first because (in the falls I've seen) it seems the horse gets up whereas the jockey is still at risk of getting trampled by other horses.

But having said that, I've always liked the line:
I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk
It's from this poem:

HURT HAWKS
By Robinson Jeffers

I

The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,

No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game without talons.

He stands under the oak-bush and waits
The lame feet of salvation; at night he remembers freedom
And flies in a dream, the dawns ruin it.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
The curs of the day come and torment him
At distance, no one but death the redeemer will humble that head,

The intrepid readiness, the terrible eyes.
The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those
That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant.

You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him;
Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him;
Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.

II

I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk;
but the great redtail
Had nothing left but unable misery
From the bone too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.

We had fed him six weeks, I gave him freedom,
He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death,
Not like a beggar, still eyed with the old
Implacable arrogance.

I gave him the lead gift in the twilight.
What fell was relaxed, Owl-downy, soft feminine feathers; but what
Soared: the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river cried fear at its rising
Before it was quite unsheathed from reality.

I bet the horse thinks to himself ...






....and in answer to your question Jim, I usually look at the jockey first.

always the horse (ofcourse, sometimes you cant look at any, as the race is obviously is still going and ive heard no one cares about that 100/1 shot ) first.
you can tell the fate of the horse within a few seconds (normally), then the jockey.