That wonderful organization, once called the Brooke Hospital for Horses & Donkeys, and now abbreviated to The Brooke, staged a very graphic display at Brighton Racecourse today of why we should, as far as we can, help to support their work in providing veterinary treatment for half-a-million equines toiling for some of the world's poorest people.
Since the day that Dorothy Brooke found thousands of OUR ex-cavalry horses abandoned and skeletonized through starvation in Egypt, after the First World War, funding the purchase of some 5,000 of these wrecks to end their suffering either through euthanasia for the blind and hopeless, or through care and nurturing for the saveable, The Brooke has been bringing free care and treatment to horses, mules, and donkeys in Egypt, India, Jordan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The animals' owners don't deliberately set out to ruin their animals: but with many of them earning mere pence a day themselves, and being ignorant of how to treat even basic problems, professional veterinary and farrier care is out of the question. The Brooke runs mobile vet teams and field clinics, assessing the work they do with the likes of the Veterinary School at Bristol University.
If you have any spare change, may I please invite you to send it to The Brooke, Broadmead House, 21 Panton Street, London SW1Y 4DR, tel. 020 7930 0210, e-mail info@thebrooke.org, and at www.thebrooke.org for all the details of their fantastic work.
On June 11, they're holding a national fundraiser called 'Courses for Horses', backed by Sir Peter O'Sullevan, John Francome and Tony McCoy from racing, and Britian's leading riders Carl Hester, Pippa Funnell and Ellen Whitaker.
If you have a stonking great win on the Derby, please can you remember those tens of thousands of struggling equines, often carrying their own bodyweight in bricks, salt, logs, in terrible heat, inadequately fed and watered, and help them a little, please? I'm going to leave them a bequest as well as bung off a cheque, since while I'm certainly happy to help our own racehorses find decent post-career homes, these animals are actually helping to keep poverty-stricken communities going. Thanks for reading this.
Since the day that Dorothy Brooke found thousands of OUR ex-cavalry horses abandoned and skeletonized through starvation in Egypt, after the First World War, funding the purchase of some 5,000 of these wrecks to end their suffering either through euthanasia for the blind and hopeless, or through care and nurturing for the saveable, The Brooke has been bringing free care and treatment to horses, mules, and donkeys in Egypt, India, Jordan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The animals' owners don't deliberately set out to ruin their animals: but with many of them earning mere pence a day themselves, and being ignorant of how to treat even basic problems, professional veterinary and farrier care is out of the question. The Brooke runs mobile vet teams and field clinics, assessing the work they do with the likes of the Veterinary School at Bristol University.
If you have any spare change, may I please invite you to send it to The Brooke, Broadmead House, 21 Panton Street, London SW1Y 4DR, tel. 020 7930 0210, e-mail info@thebrooke.org, and at www.thebrooke.org for all the details of their fantastic work.
On June 11, they're holding a national fundraiser called 'Courses for Horses', backed by Sir Peter O'Sullevan, John Francome and Tony McCoy from racing, and Britian's leading riders Carl Hester, Pippa Funnell and Ellen Whitaker.
If you have a stonking great win on the Derby, please can you remember those tens of thousands of struggling equines, often carrying their own bodyweight in bricks, salt, logs, in terrible heat, inadequately fed and watered, and help them a little, please? I'm going to leave them a bequest as well as bung off a cheque, since while I'm certainly happy to help our own racehorses find decent post-career homes, these animals are actually helping to keep poverty-stricken communities going. Thanks for reading this.
