Eddie, a 9-year-old gray Arabian gelding from Powell, Wyo., survived a wild ride last week after the trail beneath him collapsed, sending him through water gates and into a 3.3-mile-long irrigation tunnel, the Powell Tribune reported.

District irrigation manager Bryant Startin told the paper it would have taken the horse about 45 minutes to pass through the tunnel. While Eddie would have had about two feet of headroom in the passage, he was completely submerged when sucked through the gates.

Not seen again for two days after being sucked into the tunnel, Eddie’s people though he was a goner. But then someone found the still-saddled horse in the canal downstream. With urging, the exhausted equine was extricated from the ditch with a slight fever, a laceration on a hind leg, and some other bumps and bruises.

As of the Powell Tribune report, he was back at home eating apples with gusto