Danielle Garner, of Laidley, Qld, just days away from her 21st birthday, died instantly on Saturday 28 June, when her favourite thoroughbred horse kicked her in the chest. She had been trying to settle him down prior to float loading.
Danielle was a veterinary nurse “whose whole life revolved around horses,” her mother told the Sunday Mail. "She always said she was going to the Olympics one day."
Across the world Michigan resident Bob Hunt died after one of his long time Belgium Draft horses kicked him in the head while he was grooming it in preparation for a show.
Relatives described the incident as a freak accident and said that Hunt had owned and worked with the heavy horses all his life often competing his teams in horse pulling contests.