The death of an 18-year-old junior rodeo champion who perished in a bizarre horse-related accident has left a Texas community in mourning.<\/p>\n
A representative for the Lott Volunteer Fire Department told CBS affiliate KWTX-TV that at approximately 8 a.m.<\/p>\n
local time on Monday, August 12, near Chilton, Ace Patton Ashford of Lott, Texas, was tending to a sick calf when a nearby horse became agitated.<\/p>\n
The Lott VFD official told KWTX, \u201cThe horse [dragged] the man a good<\/p>\n
distance in an open field after his leg became tangled.<\/p>\n
Ashford had sustained severe head injuries, but he was still breathing and<\/p>\n
had a pulse when emergency personnel arrived.<\/p>\n
According to his obituary, the recent high school graduate passed away after being airlifted to Baylor Scott & White Hospital.<\/p>\n
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The death of an 18-year-old junior rodeo champion who perished in a bizarre horse-related accident has left a Texas community in mourning. A representative for the Lott Volunteer Fire Department told CBS affiliate KWTX-TV that at approximately 8 a.m. local time on Monday, August 12, near Chilton, Ace Patton Ashford of Lott, Texas, was tending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t