Woman dies in hospital after horse and cart broke free at country fair

After she was brought in critical condition into hospital Addenbrooke's in Cambridge the 57 year-old woman from Bury St Edmunds died after an incident with a run-beaten horse and carriage on Sunday. Seven other people were hospitalized with back and abdominal damage. They are all back home.
The horse has probably broken loose after being tied up and thereby bumped into and run over people.
The horse is the four year-old Breton horse, named Luke. He was exactly sold for meat when he was rescued by his owner, Carriage Tours, of Bury St Edmunds, in September last year.

My opinion:

As a horse owner I know that a horse, even when it is a very friendly one, always stays an animal. So you never know what it can do. The horse that caused this drama was very young. In my opinion the horse was too young for being taken up to a country fair. In the Netherlands the minimum age for a horse to participate in gymkhanas is 4. The big difference is that the majority of visitors are familiar with horses and that the horses riding area is separate from that of the gymkhana village. The age of the horse can explain his behaviour; young, impulsive and not experienced.