happen, we have an early warning system to determine if there is an increase in virus and in the vectors that carry them and we can potentially do something about preventing infections in humans and animals. reporter: for gayle, it s not just about protecting humans but hours too. you spend years and years bringing a horse up, apart from the emotional impact it has on you, it has all the other impacts. it s financial. it s also, you know, you have a tough competitor starting his career, and the next thing, you ve lost it. it takes years and years, a minimum of like six or seven years to get a horse to the top level. reporter: it was obviously a great tragedy that you lost your prize horse. do you see maybe some good coming out of this research for humans as well? absolutely. the fact that now that medical research is here, every month, to take samples and things, we have to know how it s spread or what the concentration of mosquitoes is in a certain area, at a certain time of t
reporter and horseman has been covering the event from the sidelines until now. i saw that things were not going really well, and nobody was helping and doing anything. so i just start to scream one horse at a time. you know, do something. he pushes his way into the frigid water and starts barking orders, but helping the horses is no easy task. he has to figure out how to give them a leg up, literally. i jumped in the water, and i just started to push one of the horse up, and screaming at other people to come and help and get ropes. getting the horses out is incredibly dangerous. at any moment one of them could push someone under or land an unintentional kick. what he does next takes everyone by surprise. i went down under the water and, of course, it was not comfortable, but it was something that had to be done. i put the back leg on my leg. providing a ledge to push off from gives the horse just enough leverage to heave its heavy exhausted body out of the exhausted body
horse at a time. you know, do something. he pushes his way into the frigid water and starts barking orders, but helping the horses is no easy task. he has to figure out how to give them a leg up, literally. i jumped in the water, and i just started to push one of the horse up, and screaming at some other people to come and help and get ropes. getting the horses out is incredibly dangerous. at any moment, one of them could push someone under or land an unintentional kick. what he does next takes everyone by surprise. i went down under the water and, of course, it was not comfortable, but it was something that had to be done. i put the back leg on my leg. providing a ledge to push off from gives the horse just enough leverage to heave its heavy exhausted body out of the swampy lake bottom. riders standing on the ice pull the animals forward as others in
has been covering the event from the sidelines until now. i saw that things were not going really well, and nobody was helping and doing nothing. so i just start to scream, one horse at a time. you know, do something. he pushes his way into the frigid water and starts barking orders, but helping the horses is no easy task. he has to figure out how to give them a leg up, literally. i jumped in the water, and i just started to push one of the horse up, and screaming at some other people to come and help and get ropes. getting the horses out is incredibly dangerous. at any moment, one of them could push someone under or land an unintentional kick. what he does next takes everyone by surprise. i went down under the water and, of course, it was not comfortable, but it was something that had to be done. i put the back leg on my leg. providing a ledge to push off from gives the horse just enough leverage to heave its heavy exhausted body out of the swampy lake bottom.
you know, do something. he pushes his way into the frigid water and starts barking orders, but helping the horses is no easy task. he has to figure out how to give them a leg up, literally. i jumped in the water, and i just started to push one of the horse up, and screaming at some other people to come and help and get ropes. getting the horses out is incredibly dangerous. at any moment, one of them could push someone under or land an unintentional kick. what he does next takes everyone by surprise. i went down under the water and, of course, it was not comfortable, but it was something that had to be done. i put the back leg on my leg. providing a ledge to push off from gives the horse just enough leverage to heave its heavy exhausted body out of the swampy lake bottom. riders standing on the ice pull the animals forward as others in the lake push them out.