A select board member from the town of Hamilton, Massachusetts has spent the last two weeks in a Beverly hospital bed, recovering from severe injuries after she says a bicyclist spooked her horse during a trail ride in Ipswich.

Rosie Kennedy suffered a shattered left ankle and a torn right knee in the fall. Doctors plan to keep her leg immobilized for six weeks, leaving her unable to bear weight as she continues to recover.

But Kennedy says the physical injuries pale in comparison to the loss of her 8-year-old horse, Pops.

"Sometimes you can't control the situation and then a terrible tragedy occurs," she said from her hospital room.

It happened on November 21, when Kennedy says she was riding Pops near some railroad tracks in Ipswich, when a cyclist came "zooming" past and turned onto

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