LOL! I was wondering the same thing than the OP!
Prostitute: What the beep are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

I believe GunsGirlsCars did see him fall off the horse in the theater. And while others say this never happened in the trailer or when they saw it in the movies, this does not mean it did not happen. The film industry is notorious for showing slightly (and sometimes not so slightly) different versions of movies in different parts of the U.S., theater vs. telvision vs. dvd, over seas, etc.
True, but it is much more likely a case of false memory.
There are many people who swear that there is a scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off of Sloane undressing while Cameron sneaks a peek from his "catatonic" state on the diving board. It's pretty much documented that the footage doesn't exist, but since it was described by Sloane, people imagine the scene in their minds.
This sounds like one of those instances.

You're right about scenes being mysteriously axed. For instance, I saw The War with Kevin Costner like four times at the theater. SPOILER: When his character is critically injured and he's lying in a hospital bed, his two kids and wife go up closer to him and the son takes his hand. Nowhere to be seen now, however. And another closeup of him lying in the bed unconscious and a bandage covering a cut on his left temple. Gone. Out of the whole movie. Not that this is a big deal, but I don't understand why they'd do that. I saw Silverado on tv but have the Anniversary edition but I hardly see anything of KC even in the interviews and stuff.
Well, I am wrong about that stuff in The War. But I swear there's one or two scenes I did see at the theater that disappeared. Weird.

I saw the movie in its original theatrical release. The incident was never in any version that I saw, or ever heard of. It was always something that we were told about, rather than saw.
Now, if the OP happens to have lived somewhere where
Silverado
got a test screening, before the final release cut was set for making prints, I can see that as a possibility. The scene wasn't in the released version, though (and this was decades after the end of issues about different local censorship boards causing different versions of movies to go to different jurisdictions within the US).

I believe GunsGirlsCars did see him fall off the horse in the theater. And while others say this never happened in the trailer or when they saw it in the movies, this does not mean it did not happen. The film industry is notorious for showing slightly (and sometimes not so slightly) different versions of movies in different parts of the U.S., theater vs. telvision vs. dvd, over seas, etc.
I, on more than one occasion, have seen a part in a movie, then when it was on cable or dvd, that part was gone.
It happens a lot on cable too. I've seen a movie on HBO in which a certain scene is shown, then on Encore; same movethat particular scene is not shown.

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I saw it in the cinema in `85. You never saw Jake fall off the horse.

The only shot they show of anyone falling off of a horse in the trailer, is one of the badguys falling off of his horse
during
the stampede scene.
"Don't mind me, man, I'm just effen with ya"

Janis Joplin

By the look on Emmitt's face, after Augie tells him about Jake, you can see that Emmitt is amused because he knows his brother got away and isn't dead.

He tells Paden, that he was playing dead, however.
"Don't mind me, man, I'm just effen with ya"

Janis Joplin

I don't recall the scene either, but it's been over 20 years. Watching it again last night, I had the feeling that Emmet never bought the story from Augie He didn't look too surprised, and of course Augie never saw it happen, I guess. I thought that Augie was the only one that seemed really surprised to see Jake when he did appear, though Paden and Mal hadn't heard of his demise.

The trailer on the Criterion Laserdisc, doesn't show Jake jumping off of his horse and sliding down a hill or mountain side, but I could be wrong.
"Don't mind me, man, I'm just effen with ya"

Janis Joplin

Sorry, but I remember Jake jumping of the horse and sliding down the hill/mountaing side?
But, no big dealstill a great flick!

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