Horse handler gets brutally body slammed

Handling wild horses is an exercise always fraught with danger.

And so it proved for one unlucky aid at the Recent Red Bluff Round-Up in California as he tried to keep a flighty mare under control before the Wild Horse Race.

Clinging to the reigns with two other co-handlers, the man was no match for the power of the horse when it reared up on its hind legs and launched him into the air before brutally body slamming him onto the dirt track.

The slam momentarily knocked out the man as spectators gasped in horror while the horse galloped away.

But fortunately the handler was able to regain his feet moments later and, according to a Facebook post from one rodeo goer, was uninjured – apart from a rotten headache.

Dare we say, he may need some lessons in horse whispering.