Ponies Go Rogue in Pull Competition, Injuring Six

JEFFERSON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say several people are recovering from injuries suffered when two horses bolted during a sled-pulling competition in a rural upstate New York town.

Officials in the Schoharie County town of Jefferson say Sunday afternoon's event was an old-fashioned pony pull competition being held at Buck's North Road Stable.

Town Supervisor Daniel Singletary tells the Daily Gazette of Schenectady that one of the horses was pulling a 5,000-pound load when it kicked a member of its driving team in the chest.

Singletary says both horses broke loose from their sled and ran through a tent of onlookers, injuring about six people. Deputies say they were taken to Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta with bruises, lacerations and other injuries.