June 2007
Exposed - Race Horses Slaughtered For HUMAN CONSUMPTION - Meat
The Midland Racehorse Care Centre joined forces with the Daily Express and Animal Aid to expose the cruel trade in horsemeat. This is the side of horseracing that the bookies would rather you did not see - ‘retired’ race horses sold through markets to be slaughtered and their meat sold abroad.
Founder of the MRCC Serena Miller intercepted a meat man at Ascot Sales and he admitted the horse he had bought was going to be killed and then sent to France.
The mare Hope was bought by the Daily Express and she arrived at the centre on the 4th of June. She is a happy healthy horse who enjoys her hacking and we love her. Just to think that the gorgeous 9 year old mare could end up on someone's plate turns our stomachs.
Rescued! Sportsdaystroller or Express Hope as she's now called with founder Serena Miller
Loving life at the MRCC
SEPTEMBER 2006
FOUNDER SERENA MILLER GOES UNDERCOVER FOR THE OBSERVER
Serena went undercover to Turner's Horse Slaughterers in
Nantwhich, Cheshire and shockingly revealed with the Observer newspaper that 2000 racehorses are killed there every year.
They kill 100 a week on a Friday in a squalid barn.
JUNE 2007
THE PEOPLE PUT A PLEAD OUT FOR THE MRCC.
Following the saving of Sportsday stroller the national paper The People put out a plea to help us save more racehorses from a terrible fate. Thanks to all the response we had it was overwhelming and thanks to The People for a moving truthfull article!
REHOMED! Hope fit and healthy in her loving home in the Peak District with loving rehomer Julie
Victory! Horse Slaughter Rules Tightened
The MRCC, Animal Aid and the Daily Express have forced the Ascot horse sales to change its rules. The move follows a joint undercover investigation - as a result of which, a race horse who was destined for the abattoir was given a secure future at the Midland Racehorse Care Centre. The Ascot horse sales, shocked by the public exposure, have tightened their regulations so that any horses sold in future will be “used for equine disciplines and not for slaughter” .
