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Thoroughbreds
Rescued...
In the summer of 2018 we With time fast running out, we sprang Above - Thoroughbred mares and foals
received an urgent and desperate into action, and with the relieved just after arrival at Hillside.
plea to help 23 Thoroughbreds cooperation of the stud owner,
who were facing immediate brought all the horses, including some Elderley Mares Maidment and Marie-Louise
eviction after bailiffs had moved in elderly mares, back to the safety of were put under veterinary care on arrival...
to foreclose on a failing the Sanctuary. As our driver left with
Newmarket stud. The horses, the last of the horses, the bailiff All grown up - Primrose (above left)
including pregnant mares and a explained that we had rescued them living contentedly at Hillside
three month old foal, had to be just in time as they were booked in
removed within a couple of days. to be destroyed the next day.
With their owner already evicted
from the premises, the outlook for After the horses safely arrived at
the horses was looking extremely Hillside, some of our supporters
bleak as no-one had come forward expressed surprise that no one in the
to give them a home. We knew racing industry had come forward to
that when a previous stud had gone help. Shockingly, although there is a
bankrupt, the horses had simply lot of wealth in horse racing, it is a
been taken to Beeston Horse Sale callous industry that does little to
and disposed of for meat. help the horses when they are no
longer ‘of use’.
