A teenager was hospitalised with a fractured eye socket after being pinned to a stable door by a horse.

Hollie Megan Locker, 18, of Manor Farm Stables in High Beech, was cleaning her horse Betty on Sunday ahead of a jumping competition when the mare became spooked and reared onto her hind legs.

Paramedics were called at around 7.15pm following reports that the horse had landed against the teenager and trapped her against a stable door.

The 18-year-old, who was X-Rayed five times due to neck and back pain, suffered a hairline fracture in her right eye socket and had to have stiches to close two wounds on her cheek.

Miss Locker, who is now recovering at home, said: “it was so painful, I couldn’t move my neck and I couldn’t see.

Epping Forest Guardian:

Miss Locker took a photograph of herself following the incident to record her injuries.

“My eye was like a tennis ball on my face.

“I was tying Betty up as I wanted to wash her for the show but as I did she got her lead rope stuck under the stable door something spooked her.

“She reared up on her back two feet and as she came back down she head butted me and pinned me to the stable door.

“Next thing you know I woke up on the floor and my clothes were being cut by the paramedics and they were putting me onto a stiff board.

“I had blocks around my head and was carried into the ambulance.

“I couldn’t see out one of my eyes.”