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The incredible moment a horse revived its stricken stablemate that was about to be put down was caught on camera.

The shire horse named Beatrice was found collapsed in her stable after suffering equine colic or severe abdominal pain.

Due to her sheer weight and size, the longer the mare remained grounded for the more at risk she was of succumbing to fatal organ failure.

Owners Donald MacIntyre and wife Jane Lipington and four farm workers desperately tried to stand the one tonne creature up but she was too heavy.

They even used a strap tied to a tractor to try and pull the limp horse to safety but that didn't work either.

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Due to the severe pain she was in and her heart rate and blood pressure rising to near-fatal levels, the couple gave the 16-year-old horse a deadline of when she would have to be put down.

With 20 minutes to go, Ms Lipington remembered Beatrice's companion Beau needed to be let out and opened his stable door for him.

Instead of going into the yard the stallion made a bee-line for his stablemate and lowered his head and neck over the partition wall.

He began repeatedly biting Beatrice's neck and lifting her head up.

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To the astonishment of the people watching the action forced Beatrice to roll over on her other side and then stand up.

She has since made a full recovery.

Ms Lipington, 60, said: "It is absolutely astonishing.

“We were prepared to lose her and had arranged for her to be put down but Beau knew what to do.”