Sort of? It was the horse's owner who was with him. They had been riding on the beach when the horse was sucked into "quicksand like" mud. The woman DID stay with him and tried to get him out (didn't work), but it doesn't say anywhere I've seen so far that she held his head up for hours. Only that she did help hold his head up at some point. Mostly it says she was comforting him. Not that this detracts from what she did, mind you.
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He was not so much in danger of suffocating, but because the tide water was rising. In the end they had to sedate him and use a tractor to pull him free from the mud before the water rose high enough to drown him. They also had a helicopter on standby as a last resort.
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He was not so much in danger of suffocating, but because the tide water was rising. In the end they had to sedate him and use a tractor to pull him free from the mud before the water rose high enough to drown him. They also had a helicopter on standby as a last resort.