The 67-year old former Olympic champion Christine Stückelberger has been hospitalized with eleven broken ribs after she was run over by a loose horse.
"I was working in the riding arena when suddenly I heard horse's hooves and went flying through the air," Stuckelberger explained.
The horse on the loose was 9-year old mare Noblesse, a Shagya Arabian/Hanoverian cross by Normative out of a Ramiro's Bube mare. "Oh she was just playing," Stuckelberger said, downsizing the gravity and severity of her horse's behaviour and the accident.
Stuckelberger has been managing the farm on her own since the passing of her 93-year old partner and trainer Georg Wahl on 4 November 2013. The couple has been based at Hasenberg in Kirchberg, Switzerland, since . Stuckelberger has been forced to downsize her horse stock due to her age.
In September 2013 Stuckelberger already injured herself severely falling down the hayloft on the concrete floor at the neighbour's barn. At the time she suffered a severe concussion, several broken ribs and a cracked ankle. The doctors also had to stabilize her ankle with screws and bolts.
Photo © Silke Rottermann
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