Sweden International Horse Show is winter big horse and crowd party.
The Friday evening’s celebration instead became a tragedy when one of the horses died inside the arena.
– He did die happy, says owner Thomas Eriksson.
In the middle evening performance in the Friends Arena on Friday – in front of thousands of people in the stands – dropped the Swedish driver Axel Olin’s one horse together during fyrspannets World Cup class.
– After finishing, so the horse fell together only. It got something fits or slightly after. The other horses stood still when it happened, says a witness in the audience.
– It was totally quiet in here.
Several people ran forward to help the horse, and disconnected the Three other horses in the team. Then everything went fast.
“The horse fell just downloaded”
The other horses were led out of the arena and a black tent was folded up over the horse, which remained on the ground.
– The driver stopped the span, he must have seen something happened with the horse. And then the horse fell just down. It was pretty hard for them to get off the other horses before they became entitled worried, says Bo Benner Farm, who was standing a few meters away to photograph.
Around the stadium sat shocked people, some crying, others chose to leave the arena for a while. When the lights went down lit large parts of the audience their flashlights on mobiles and shone with.
– It was almost a worshipful mood here. It was a very nasty experience, I have never seen anything like this in real life, says Bo Benner Farm.
It was confirmed a moment later the loudspeakers that the horse died, probably of a circulatory failure.
dead already when the vet arrived
Axel Wallman is the veterinarian who took care of the horse that died inside the track. He found that the Filur, as the horse was called, was dead when he arrived.
– We do not know today exactly what happened. The horse will be autopsied, then we come back with exactly the reason for it. But we suspect that he had a broken body artery or something similar. He was not
– It does not hurt, they lose consciousness and know nothing of what happened. One must say that he was fine in the end.
One of the most successful drivers, Tomas Eriksson, owns Filur, who was 23 years old, and has competed him. Now he was with the Axel Olin’s team.
– The horse got in anyway doing what he loved to do in the end. He had to die happy, said a red-eyed and emotional Tomas Eriksson.
– I’ve raced him in a number of world championships, eight or nine. It was a special horse to me. He was born at home on the farm, so it is a bit especially when you had them so long.
The Committee decided that the competition would continue as normal, something that the team behind Axel Olin stood behind.
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