Promising racehorse dies after ‘horrific’ collision with car as rider escapes with minor injuries in terrifying scenes

A RACEHORSE has died pursuing a collision with a car and its rider was near with insignificant injuries.

A two-year-old filly was struck from down by a grey Volkswagen Polo successful Berkshire.

The equine suffered superior injuries and did not survive.

While the horse's rider escaped with tiny injuries but was severely shaken - the operator of the car was unhurt.

The equine belonged to a adjacent unchangeable called Berkshire Racing Centre successful Lambourn, wherever Tom Ward is the trainer.

He said of the incident: “It was beauteous horrific for everyone. It’s the past happening you privation to happen.

“The equine progressive was a nice, young two-year-old filly who was going guardant and would person made into a beauteous three-year-old.

“Obviously her rider was precise fortunate to get distant with tiny injuries arsenic it could person been a batch worse.”

He continued: “She was portion of a drawstring going down the road.

“Lambourn is simply a precise tiny assemblage and we’ve got tons of yards, truthful a horsey colony and we’d expect radical to beryllium much alert of their surroundings but successful this incidental the idiosyncratic wasn’t.

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“The rider is good but was shaken up and beauteous bruised. She is disconnected enactment astatine the infinitesimal but hopefully she volition beryllium backmost astatine immoderate stage. Nothing seems to beryllium broken. It was beauteous messy.”

Ward besides urged drivers to beryllium much vigilant erstwhile passing horses, revealing the indispensable precautions were taken.

He added: “We took each the close precautions. The rider had a precocious viz on, it was a agleam greeting and determination was thing obstructing her from being seen.

“We conscionable privation to bring attraction to the road safety of horses and marque definite radical are alert they request to beryllium cautious erstwhile passing them.”

A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said: “We tin corroborate that a roadworthy postulation collision occurred astatine astir 8.15am connected Monday (30/9) involving a grey VW Polo and a horse.

“The operator of the Golf was not injured, but tragically, the equine sustained injuries which led to it being enactment down by a section vet.

“Anyone who witnessed the collision is asked to telephone 101, quoting notation 43240469386.”