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Day-old foal has to be winched to safety from sinkhole

A day-old foal had to be winched to safety by fire crews after falling into a disused mineshaft that had opened up in her field.

Fiona Dickson, who bred the Exmoor filly at her Beinnliath Stud in Medomsley, County Durham, said the foal’s dam had been spotted “acting very agitated” at about 10.30am on Tuesday morning (19 March).

“The filly was born in the early hours of Monday morning and when I left for work at 8.15am on Tuesday, she was in the field and fine but some time between then and 10.30am, a hole had opened up in my field and she’d fallen in it,” Fiona explained.

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Article written by: Sarah Radford

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