The 39-year-old was riding Movewiththetimes in the £160,000 BetVictor Gold Cup on Saturday.
The Paul Nicholls-trained chaser, who also emerged unhurt from the incident, was still in with a chance coming over the final obstacle.
But the 10-1 shot came crashing down after a bad mistake under his experienced rider.
The pair were quickly to their feet, leaving Baron Alco clear to win at odds of 8-1 in the big race of the day.
In an incident-packed race just SIX horses finished out of the eighteen starters.
All horses were reported to be fine with just two jockeys taken to hospital to get checked over. Both their injuries were thought to not be serious.
Baron Alco lands BetVictor Gold Cup for Gary and Jamie Moore after incident-packed race at Cheltenham
BARON ALCO gave father-and-son team Gary and Jamie Moore big-race glory in an incident-packed BetVictor Gold Cup.
The winner’s jumping was foot perfect as others blundered away their chance with only six of the 18 runners finishing a race peppered with errors.
The 8-1 shot was always out of trouble up with the pace in the £160,000 Cheltenham thriller.
He held off gallant top weight Frodon by two lengths with another eight back to Guitar Pete and Mister Whitaker.
There are few families more successful in racing than the Moores. Ryan can lay claim to the world’s best Flat jockey and dad Gary has been churning out the winners in both codes for more than 25 years.
In the glow of success the family thoughts still turned to youngest brother Josh who had been down to ride Baron Alco until Jamie switch from non-runner Benatar.
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Geraghty was back in the saddle later in the day when partnering Pink Rock to finish tenth in the final race on the card.
These jockeys are made of some tough stuff.
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