SAVAGE ATTACK BY STALLION

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 10

SAVAGE ATTACK BY STALLION

Injured Man’s Ordeal CRAWLS INTO DITCH FOR SAFETY By Telegraph— Asswiation. Auckland. November 16. Savagely attacked by a draught stallion while working on his brother’s farm at Nukuhou North, a middle-aged man, Harold Holmes, single, suffered extensive injuries to the body and one leg. Holmes had entered a paddock to catch another horse, when tho stallion viciously rushed at him, biting him on the body and one leg. He was thrown to the ground and the horse reared on its hind legs, bringing its hoofs down on the prostrate man. Holmes received injuries to the chest and back and three of his ribs were fractured. To evade further attacks the injured man crawled down a bank into a ditch where he remained in safety until the stallion moved away to another part of the paddock. Holmes then crawled back to the farmhouse some distance away and was later brought into Opotiki for medical treatment. Although the extent of his internal injuries is not yet known Holmes’s condition was reported to be not serious to-night.