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Hunt saboteurs filmed the moment a horse rider collided with Rachel

By Jon Ironmonger

BBC News, East

A hunt saboteur captured on film being trampled by a horse said it was a “miracle” she was not badly injured.

Rachel, a nurse from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, said she still suffered flashbacks of the incident on 11 February.

The 60-year-old was struck by a huntsman’s horse when it jumped a gate as she monitored a meet in Rutland with the Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs.

Police arrested a man before releasing him under investigation.

Rachel, who did not want to give her surname, said: “I could hear the thundering hooves behind me and then he jumped and I could feel the pressure on my back and a pain in my leg.

“By some miracle I wasn’t injured badly. I don’t think the shock and enormity has hit…