Oklahoma City - The coach of Oklahoma City's minor-league hockey team helped prevent a possible stampede of Belgian horses at the Oklahoma State Fair by biting one of the animals on its ear.

Doug Sauter, who coaches the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League, was at the fair Saturday attending the Centennial Expo's Draft Horse Show when he saw a Belgian horse break free from its reins. That caused a chain reaction that spooked other horses.

He bit the ear of one of the spooked horses to stop it from stampeding.

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

Sauter said he was only one of many people who aided an unidentified 62-year-old woman, who was injured after a wagon pulled by a team of horses tipped over and fell on her. She was taken to a local hospital in serious condition.

Sauter said the driver was able to get the horses turned and steered the wagon into a circle, which the coach said is a common way to prevent a stampede.
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its not his first time i guess

Never had to do it personally but I've seen it work at the fair back when I showed horses.

Scary when horses get spooked..........poor woman, hope she has a speedy recovery.

Yeah i,d probably stop moving too if someone put the bite on my ear!

I'm glad Mike Tyson wasn't there...The horse would have been minus an ear...

Belgians are very dorsal equine, They do not get excited easily, wonder what caused the horse to so Upset. If the man had time to bit the ear of an animal this size, why did he? Iv handled horses for over 20 yrs , biting a horses ear leads to an aggravated horse. and it causes unnecessary damage to its nerves in its ear, imagine biting something as hard as you can, know imgaine the ear of that horse. that man should be fined for animal abuse, if he knew how to handle a horse he would not need to go to such measures to stop one. and to be biting on a 1ton animal is stupidty at its finest.