‘Horses keep dying’: Palio campaigners step up efforts after horrific fatal accident *warning: very distressing video*

Equine welfare campaigners have renewed their efforts to bring about change in the Palio di Siena horse race in Italy, after another horse died.

In the second 2018 running of the centuries-old race in Siena, Italy, last month (20 October) video shows a chestnut horse suffer a crashing fall on a sharp corner of the town square, losing his jockey in the process.

Bowled over and then repeatedly hit by the other horses, the chestnut can be seen staggering to its feet but had clearly badly broken a front leg in the fall.

As the volume of the thousands-strong crowd rises to ear-splitting levels, the stricken horse staggers pitifully on on three legs, as stewards run to his aid, and that of his fallen jockey.

Please click here to read the rest of the article and view the video as it appears on the Horse and Hound website.

Article written by: Eleanor Jones