Safety warning after exhausted horse freed from belly-deep mud in major rescue mission

The coastguard has issued a safety warning to riders after an “exhausted” horse was rescued from belly-deep mud in a lengthy rescue mission.

Coastguard and fire crews joined search and rescue and Royal National Lifeboat Institution services on Burnham-on-Sea beach on Sunday (14 April) in a major operation to save the trapped horse.

Burnham Coastguard station officer Dave Welland told H&H the call for help came through at about 10am, and that initially two horses were stuck.

There were three people there, two riders and one other, and at first they tried to get the horses out themselves,” he said. “The first horse came out relatively quickly but the second was belly-deep in the mud.”

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Article written by: Eleanor Jones