Mum Helen Sizer wants to thank the Wiltshire Air Ambulance crew who rescued her after she was trampled by a horse.

Miss Sizer, 26, of Spreckley Road, is a groom for Neston Park stud and had been trying to move horses on Neston Park estate with colleagues shortly before midday on Friday, when a horse knocked her down stamping on her arms and legs.

She said: “We had been trying to move the horses from one field to another and so we had decided to get hold of the older ones so that the younger ones would follow.

“I had tried to grab two-year-old Jaffa’s leader and so I stood in her path as horses usually dodge out of the way.

“But she came straight at me knocking me down and trampling on me in the process.”

Her seven-year-old son Luke Korca had been standing nearby watching when the accident happened. His mum said: “He had been standing near the gate and saw everything happen.

“My boss Sir James Fuller had brought the paramedics over to me in a car as the land ambulance couldn’t get to me.

“They checked me over but I kept slipping in and out of consciousness as I banged my head when I fell. I couldn’t feel my back and thought I may have broken it at one stage.”

Miss Sizer, who lives in Lower Compton, near Calne, said she started to come round when she was being put on to a spinal board and loaded into the Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

At the Royal United Hospital an X-ray revealed she had suffered only severe bruising. She said: “When I got home that night and was resting, my son presented me with a card he had made and some hand picked flowers.”