Coach wasn't horsing around when it came time to make the save, prevent stampede

When hockey Coach Doug Sauter saw a Belgian horse break free of its reins at the state fair and endanger a woman's life, he didn't hesitate to help.

He corralled a spooked horse by biting its ear.

"That's how you stymie a horse,” he said. "You bite it as hard as you can, and it won't move.”

Sauter, head coach of Oklahoma City's Blazers hockey team, was going about his business at the time as part of another team that night: The Express Clydesdales, who were there competing in the Oklahoma State Fair Centennial Expo's Draft Horse Show along with seven other, eight-horse wagon teams.

‘A scary deal'

Initially, fair officials said a wagon pulled by one of the teams of six horses had fallen on the woman Saturday. Monday, they said the woman was caught underneath a horse and trampled. The woman was taken to an area hospital after the accident. Her identity was not released by fair officials.

"It was a scary deal,” said Sauter, who helps prepare the team of Clydesdales and its wagon for each competition.

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