Horse's postmortem results to be made public

Thu, 15 May 2014

Postmortem results from a tram horse which died on Douglas Promenade will be made public in due course.

Douglas Council says at this stage it believes 17-year-old Albert suffered a stroke whilst leading a tram on Tuesday afternoon.

All of the tram horses are given regular health checks.

This man witnessed what happened - but despite the shock vet Ray Cox says the type of animals being used are bred for this type of work: