The coach of a runner at Musselburgh who escaped from the monitor Dec. 9 after which roamed the streets of the Scottish city mentioned his horse was none the more serious for the expertise.
Rufio was contesting the closing two-mile and seven 1/2-furlong handicap chase for Gary Rutherford earlier than unseating his newbie rider, Lucy Brown, on the fourth fence.
The 100-1 shot accomplished one other circuit of the course earlier than exiting the monitor and heading for the city heart, with photographs of the 10-year-old galloping down a road previous parked automobiles shared on social media.
Rufio was lastly caught by a member of the general public after stopping at site visitors lights.
Musselburgh’s clerk of the course, Rory Innes, mentioned Dec. 10: “It was an unlucky incident. The jockey was unseated and the horse did a full circuit and escaped by way of the outside everlasting railing.
“The bottom employees and everyone went off after the horse and he was caught by a member of the general public. He stopped at some site visitors lights.
“We despatched the horse ambulance to convey him again, bought him checked over and he was completely nice, as was the jockey.”
Rutherford mentioned Rufio was protected and properly again at his yard in Jedburgh within the Scottish Borders.
Talking on Tuesday morning, the coach mentioned: “Rufio is all good this morning. It is simply a kind of issues. I wasn’t truly there, I used to be at Newcastle as we had a runner down there. There will be different days.”
