Three of Paul Tapner’s horses miraculously survived with only scratches when a lorry drove into the back of his horsebox Sunday morning. Paul’s horsebox had broken down on the side of the road on the way to a jumper show near Gloucestershire when a Polish lorry drove into the back of Paul’s. Pauls’ four-star horses, including Badminton champion Inonothing, were not on board, but three young horses were. As Paul described it for Horse and Hound:
“The horse on the rear got thrown out, span a circle in mid-air and landed splat on the road — I don’t know how it’s still alive,”
“He then got up and trotted towards the oncoming traffic, but luckily everyone stopped and he was caught.”
“My colours are red, so what with the horsebox and the horse’s rugs being red, it looked like there was a lot of blood [on the horse] from where I was, but in fact it’s just cuts and bruises,”
One horses did receive extensive stitches to the head, but fortunately all will be back in work soon. What an incredible story that could have easily been a tragic one.
In other Monday morning British news from our friends at the Horse and Hound, Oliver Townend has yet another business venture–this time a stud business, and you can go racing for free at Newbury in March.
Go eventing.
