Video posted to Twitter by Lampre-Merida shows the moment two frightened horses joined the Giro d’Italia peloton during a descent on Friday’s Stage 13 from Palmanova to Cividale del Friuli, won by Sky’s Mikel Nieve.
Team staff in the car tried spraying water at the animals – which appear to be a mare and her foal – to try and make them stop, but to no avail.
Luckily, the galloping horses did not get collide with any riders or race vehicles, which could have had disastrous consequences for man and beast alike.
Il video con i cavalli impauriti che hanno invaso la 13^ tappa del #giro , by @signorbiga pic.twitter.com/rCPNgDminP
— Team Lampre Merida (@lampre_merida) May 21, 2016

























5 thoughts on “Video: Horses gallop alongside Giro d’Italia peloton”
Yay! Let’s squirt water and
Yay! Let’s squirt water and beep our horns at them. That’ll help calm them down
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I don’t know much about
I don’t know much about horses in the main, but I canter shake this nagging feeling that driving beside them spraying water at them trying to shoo them away wasn’t the best idea.
Terrified animals with small
Terrified animals with small brains…
nowasps wrote:
thats the humans, as for the horses ?
Which equine was towing
Which equine was towing Nibali?
Or was foal play suspected? I’d bet a pony on that.
Enough of the horseplay.