WHEN a horse is found in a field with what appears to be a traumatic injury there is sadly often one answer, but sometimes luck can play its part. Restricted licence holder Cathy Hamilton, based in Tipperary, was heartbroken to find her home-bred mare Callherthemidwife standing in the field, apparently unable to move in October 2018.

“I literally stood and cried. She had not been the easiest mare, but I had her two weeks off a run, I had even found a race for her at Thurles. It was 6am on a Saturday, the horses were all still out at night rugged up, so I knew I would not be able to get hold of Gavin (Shorten), the huntsman at the Tipperary kennels, so I phoned vet Tom Burns and he came straight away,” recounts Cathy.