‘Runaway’ driving horse at country fair has died
The horse at the centre of a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into a death at a country show has died.
Spectator Carole Bullett died after a horse pulling a carriage bolted into crowds at Nowton Park Country Fair, Bury St Edmunds, on 19 June 2011.
The horse, Urasio, was sold after the incident and died earlier this month.
A spokesman for Norwich HSE said the cause of the horse’s death was protein-losing entropathy due to severe worm damage.
“The damage was long standing and no reflection on the last owners, who only owned the horse for three months,” he said.
A date is still to be set for the inquest into the death of Ms Bullett, 57.
This news story was first published in the current issue of H&H (19 January 2012)
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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.