Twin tragedy at Auchinleck
Two horses broke their backs and had to be put down at Scotland’s Auchinleck Horse Trials last weekend.
Carole Dennis’s 14-year-old gelding Beckett II, with whom she successfully completed Badminton and Burghley, including a rare double clear at Badminton this year, fell on landing at the second part of a footbridge double.
Carole, who runs an eventing yard in North Yorkshire, fell heavily but escaped injury.
Nearly A Tonto, a 16.3hh nine-year-old skewbald gelding owned and ridden by North West-based Tuffy Tilley, suffered a similar accident over a timber wagon.
Tuffy broke a wrist and two ribs in the fall.
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