UK - A horse owner has hit out at “idiots” who let eight horses out of a field, prompting a three-hour rescue operation when one tumbled several feet into a hole.

Four-year-old cob mare Dolly was initially feared stolen after going missing from a field at Kinfauns in the early hours of Sunday morning.

She was found eight hours later in the narrow entrance of a wartime shelter 10 feet below the ground.

It took owner Hannah Pedgrift three and a half hours to coax the petrified pony into walking backwards along the passage and up some stairs to freedom.

The 18-year-old said police alerted her to the horses’ escape at 4.30am and that she suspected the gate had been left open deliberately.

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The Courier, By KIRSTY TOPPING, 21 November 2013, http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/owner-blasts-idiots-who-freed-horse-to-fall-into-hole-1.155935