Equine lovers rally to plight of animals with aid worth £500,000

THIRTY horseboxes with donations of tack and other items with an estimated value of Â£500,000 gathered on Friday at Tattersalls in Newmarket to help the animals rescued from Spindles Farm.

By The Newsroom

Published 28th Jan 2008, 15:24 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:01 BST

Fifteen of them set off for the International League for the Protection of Horses at Snetterton in Norfolk at 8.30am on Saturday, where they were unloaded and items stored. A further convoy of 15 lorries set off to Redwings in Norfolk.

They had come from all over the country and carried donated goods as part of Operation Esther, the group set up by members of the Horse and Hound online forum in aid of the charities involved in rehousing the Amersham horses.

The group has been supported by horse owners in West Sussex and readers of Sussex Horse World.

The ILPH has taken in 11 of the horses at a safe location near its headquarters. It is estimated that it will cost the charity 66,000 to treat and care for them over the next year alone.

Redwings has also taken in a large number of the affected equines and is rehabilitating them.

For full story see Sussex Horse World, West Sussex Gazette January 30

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