Terribly unfortunate - Aussie racing rocked by stunning four-horse tragedy

Four horses have died in the truck incident in the vicinity of Lindsay Park at Euroa within a scene co-trainer Tom Dabernig has called devastating.

3 Shadwell Stud-owned fillies, all skilled by Lindsay Park, and an unnamed broodmare cheap life size horse for mosaic garden statue ended up killed inside the incident on Monday evening quickly after leaving the schooling residence near Euroa.

A fifth horse, the Bjorn Baker-trained Hybrid Theory, who ran at Caulfield on Saturday, was taken to a veterinary clinic in Euroa and escaped relatively unscathed.

Dabernig explained the fillies, Hafaawa, Aladaala and Maktabba, all lately retired from racing, ended up on their own strategy to Yarraman Park Stud in NSW.

He said the float had travelled from Melbourne, stopped at Lindsay Park to select up the fillies and was going to get back again over the Hume Freeway toward Sydney once the accident took place.

Dabernig was amid those who rushed to the internet site.

"It wasn't pleasurable but it absolutely was one of those factors that everybody concerned pulled jointly in an emergency circumstance," Dabernig explained.

"Lucikly there was not An additional auto associated and the driving force was emotionally upset, but otherwise Alright.

"I'm undecided how the accident occurred, although the truck somehow rolled.

"We experienced 3 vets on web-site, the CFA, law enforcement and they'd to cut the roof from the truck to get the horses out.

"It was pretty a scene."

Aussie racing Neighborhood in shock

Dabernig claimed Shadwell Stud had been comprehending and was anxious for everyone's security when he was guaranteed Platinum Horse Transportation was presenting the driver counselling.

With the quantity of horses transported all over Australia by Lindsay Park, Dabernig mentioned incidents are already number of.