Horse falls into Kockelscheuer swimming pool

A homeowner had a bit of a surprise on Friday morning when three horses burst into the garden with one of them falling into the swimming pool.

It was about 6am when firefighters received a curious call from a resident in Kockelscheuer explaining that a poor horse was trapped in their pool, and now doing a couple of lengths.

So emergency services hoofed it to the residence to rescue the animal. The operation to get the horse out of its predicament was quite a major one and there was not horsing around as the pool had to be drained using three pumps.

Then a crane rolled in with special straps to hoist the horse out of the pool and onto dry land.

The event went swimmingly and a veterinarian who inspected the animal at the scene declared it unharmed.

The whole rescue operation lasted about two hours.

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