US eventer’s horse killed when trailer overturned
US eventer Michael Pollard’s team of horses was involved in a road accident just five miles from his yard in Dalton, Georgia this morning (25 May).
His trailer turned over trapping all six horses on board.
Five horses – Icarus, Schoensgreen, Hanni, Jude’s Law, Raphael and Little Star – were cut free and survived with minor cuts.
But Michael’s new ride, the stallion VDL Ulando H died at the scene. His owner Ruth Armstrong is “more than devastated” by the loss of her horse.
No people were injured in the accident.
On facebook, Michael wrote: “I felt like Ulando was the most exciting horse in the barn and I was already getting teased by the girls that he was my pet. I am devastated by the loss. Wish there was something more to be done.”
Michael travelled over to Britain last year to compete at Burghley Horse Trials with Icarus, but suffered a nasty fall jumping into the water.
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He and Hanni won team gold at the 2011 Pan American Games.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.