VIDEO: Watch as lucky horse is cut free after being trapped by fallen trees during Storm Eunice

Here's the special moment that 10-year-old mare Cintia was sawed free and released after being trapped by three fallen conifers.

The mare had had an incredibly lucky escape after the 20-metre trees fell inches either side of her during Storm Eunice, which battered the country on Friday.

She stayed calm throughout the ordeal and was able to walk free completely unscathed after firefighters and a tractor removed the trunks trapping her.

Cintia spent the night in a stable before being released back into the paddock at her home in Collingbourne Wood, jumping for joy as she raced across the grass.

Early today, the Newbury Weekly News reported how Cintia's owner, Katie Rossiter, called vet Ellen Harris, of McGonnell and Gillatt Equine Veterinary Practice near Hungerford, in order to sedate the horse and keep her relaxed while firefighters worked around her.

The firefighters chainsawed their way through trunks 12 to 18 inches thick in order to free the mare, while a forklift on a tractor helped stabilise the trunks to stop them from falling on Cintia.

Mrs Harris told the NWN "how ridiculously lucky it was" that the trunks had fallen either side of Cintia.

She added: "If she had been at a slightly different orientation, or slightly further one way or another, she would’ve been dead – no two ways about it."