Kiwi a Christmas miracle after surviving bushfires
Jessie Smith thought she had lost her best friend in the devastating bushfires that took over 80-acres of her families property in South Australia.Her horse Kiwi, an Off The Track thoroughbred had other plans. #LoveTheHorse ❤️
Posted by Racing.com on Saturday, January 4, 2020
20-year-old South Australia native Jessie Smith was diagnosed with auto-immune disease at 14 years old which left her right leg partially paralyzed. Since then, she’s looked to horses to keep her happy and active. She found the perfect partner in “Kiwi,” a Thoroughbred who came off the track in 2014 and has since taken her Dressage Nationals with the help of her trainer, five-star eventer Megan Jones, who lost her farm in a recent brushfire.
Just before Christmas, Jessie’s family farm was put in sudden peril when a change of wind brought flames from a nearby brushfire, which wasn’t initially headed their way, within sight from their property in less than two hours. The South Australian Country Fire Service (CFS) wasn’t able to get to them before the flames so the family was ordered to evacuate. They were able to load three horses onto a two horse trailer, but Kiwi wouldn’t load and they had to make the heartbreaking decision to leave him behind. They turned him out in a paddock hoping but not believing that he would somehow survive.
Jessie and her family were convinced that once they were able to return to their property, they would find that everything, including Kiwi, would be gone. When Jessie’s dad returned to the farm he found that 80 acres of land plus their herd of cattle were gone, but to everyone’s surprise he found that their house was still standing and so was Kiwi, waiting in his paddock without a scratch or burn on him for someone to bring his feed bucket.
The Smith family would later learn that their house was saved by three men who took shelter there after becoming trapped, but no one knows exactly how it happened that Kiwi’s paddock escaped destruction. However it happened, they’re forever thankful for their miracle horse.
This horse is the bravest little soldier ❤️We’ve just met Sam, Dougal and Ned. The guys who got trapped by a falling…
Posted by Jessie Smith on Monday, December 23, 2019
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