The Irish Horse Welfare Trust is Ireland’s only official charity solely dedicated to the welfare of horses and ponies in Ireland. They also run a racehorse re-training programme, the most well known graduate being Moscow Flyer. This is the cover of their latest newsletter which gives details of all their activities.
Since the newsletter was printed, the IHWT has been involved in a major rescue operation involving a large number of horses from a Co. Kilkenny farm. The horses were seized by Department of Agriculture on welfare grounds because they had been abandoned. The horses, which were to be slaughtered are mainly of sport horse breeding and consist largely of young stock and in-foal mares. IHWT staff and volunteers collected the horses over two days and transported them into care. They are now making an urgent appeal for foster homes for any of these horses that are ready to move on.
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