The MRCC was founded in 2005 and is the first charity of its kind in the Midlands striving to rescue, retrain and rehome some of the 5,000 horses leaving the racing industry every year.

With the demand for racing ever growing, more thoroughbreds are bred in a quest to find winners. However only a small percentage of these make the grade. We are here to provide a life after racing.

In 2006 the plight of horses on the continent being transported long hours, to be killed for their meat, was brought to our attention by Equine Rescue and Rehoming. We have subsequently developed a branch of the chairty to help these horses find a new life in the UK. This element of our work is only possible thanks to our patron and donor, Mr Phil Hart.

If you would like to make a contribution of any size, please contact us to find out more about what we are doing and donate to either our french horses or racehorses. Please see rescue page for photos of what we've achieved so far.

In September 2006 we revealed that thousands of racehorses go for slaughter.

Now, with the credit crunch, even more are being killed for meat.

Foals are being aborted and shot when they're just days old.