Teenage rider devastated after car crashes into her 'Olympic' horse Benny who had to be put down - dashing their Team GB hopes

A talented teenage horsewoman's dreams are in tatters after a car crashed into her on a Cotswolds village lane – leaving her elite prizewinning horse dead. Tinks Walker, 17, a great hope for British equestrian sports, went headfirst through the car's windscreen and came round to find her star gelding, Benny, dying in the road. The family have launched their own legal proceedings for the injuries to Tinks and for the value of 10-year-old Benny, said to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Tinks Walker and Benny riding together.