Girl killed by horse she idolised
June 29, 2008
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A YOUNG woman whose life revolved around horses died yesterday after she was kicked in the chest by her thoroughbred.
Danielle Garner, a veterinary nurse of Regency Downs near Laidley in Queensland, would have turned 21 on July 14.
Danielle was trying to settle her horse before putting him in a float about 9am (AEST) yesterday when she was kicked.
Her mother, Donna Garner, gave her daughter CPR but Danielle died before Queensland Ambulance arrived.
Mrs Garner’s sister Bonnie Robinson said it appeared the horse’s kick had stopped Danielle’s heart.
“She was a lovely person,” Ms Robinson said.
“She loved her animals, she loved her horses.
“She was an outgoing girl with boundless energy. She was her mother’s pride and joy.”
Ms Robinson said Danielle had owned the horse for two years.
“It was her favourite,” she said. “She idolised him.
“She was trying to put him in a float and she was lunging him to get a bit of energy out of him.”
She said Mrs Garner had been in the house and had heard a noise and ran down to an arena in the back yard.
“Danielle’s whole life revolved around horses,” Ms Robinson said.
“She always said she was going to the Olympics one day.”
Danielle had been preparing the horse for an eventing competition yesterday.
“Her mother worried about her a bit around the horse,” Ms Robinson said.
“Danielle once said, ‘If I died doing it Mum, I’ll die doing what I love’.
“She wasn’t scared of horses.”
It was Mrs Garner’s second child to die. She lost a baby, six weeks old, to SIDS 18 years ago.
Danielle grew up in Toogoolawah, near Ipswich, and Bray Park on Brisbane’s northside.
She went to school at Genesis Christian College.
Danielle has a brother, Trent, 13, and two sisters Katelyn, 16, and Elisha, 19.
“She was beautiful inside and out,” Ms Robinson said.
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