Rescue at Cherry Creek State Park. Horse sunk & fell in the muddy water. South Metro Firefighters on scene helping. pic.twitter.com/zdQFZMX34u

AURORA, Colo., July 29 (UPI) -- Rescue crews in Colorado worked together to free a horse which had become stuck in mud after its owners rode it into a marsh.

South Metro Fire Rescue shared photos and video of the rescue to their Facebook page as they worked to pull Cupcake, the exhausted 13-year-old horse, out from the mud at Cherry Creek State Park.


"It was a life or death situation. That horse had to stand up or get a helicopter," veterinarian Dale Rice told CBS Denver.

Crews said that Cupcake became exhausted and dehydrated as her owners went off trail before collapsing into the mud.

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