‘Guide Horse’ Trained to Help Blind Man With Fear of Dogs

A Saint Bernard named Zuma watches a fully grown miniature horse named Willow on March 15, 2009. The first guide horse in the UK is being trained to help a visually impaired man. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

• A visually impaired man with a fear of dogs has been given the UK’s first guide horse.

Mohammed Patel, 23, from Blackburn, Lancashire, will have an 8-month-old horse called Digby help him with day-to-day tasks.

The Amercian miniature horse, that is two feet high, will be ready to move in with the 23-year-old BBC journalist after completing two years of training.