Overview
- Hamilton select board member Rosie Kennedy says a fast-approaching bicyclist spooked her horse near railroad tracks by Appleton Farms.
- Kennedy suffered a shattered left ankle and a torn medial collateral ligament, spent six days in Beverly Hospital, and is now in rehabilitation.
- Pops, her 8-year-old horse, ran about a mile and was euthanized after veterinarians found a fatal shoulder fracture.
- Kennedy photographed the cyclist, who left the scene, and she crawled for roughly 30 minutes back to a barn to get help.
- Ipswich police and the Essex County district attorney’s office say the case remains under investigation with no charges filed, and local trail groups are urging cyclists to announce themselves around horses.