JOCKEY SAYS SHE FAILED
That’s one of dozens of hateful messages sent to Gold Coast jockey Laura Cheshire after the 35-year-old’s former champion racehorse was tortured and slaughtered at the hands of abattoir workers in secret hidden camera footage.
Cheshire watched in horror on Thursday night as a 7.30 investigation showed thoroughbred War Ends being beaten savagely before receiving a bolt in the head.
As far as she knew, her former horse was in his “forever home” after she spent years making sure he was being looked after.
In an exclusive interview with news.com.au on Friday, Cheshire shared her grief at having watched the horse she loved — a horse she rode for a year — being treated with such disdain.
See the full ABC NEWS documentary “The Final Race” here.
See a short video featuring Laura Cheshire and read the full interview here.
Read the interview with Laura that unleashed many vicious comments here.
MEET OUR HORSE MEAT writes:
MOHM made a video about War Ends and his horrendous treatment. You will see the slaughterman kick him in the head as the final insult. This illustrates horrific disrespect for horses, including those who have won fortunes for their owners in racing.
Laura Cheshire is well known in Australia as an advocate of horses. When she saw The Final Race, she saw a horse that she rode regularly being slaughtered at Meramist. Again, her interview — linked above and here — about this horse will bring tears to your eyes.
FROM LAURA’S FACEBOOK PAGE…
Meet Our Horse Meat agrees with Laura Cheshire about overbreeding. Australian thoroughbred breeders breed too many horses to ever safely rehome them all — and the horse racing industry relies on slaughter so they can churn them through, even refering to horses as wastage.
Please remember it is breeders who are making millions by overbreeding and that those who support racing by watching, betting, investing in — and in other ways support racing — perpetuate the horrible cruelty of the slaughter pipeline.
So what can you do to help stop the slaughter or horses for human consumption or any other purpose in Australia?
First, please don’t support horse racing in any way shape or form. You can learn more about the horrors of horse racing here.
Contact the Prime Minister here and let it be known that you are opposed to the slaughter of horses in Australia for any reason!
Peruse the links in the menu at the top of the page, and see the button below for more info and how you can help ban horse slaughter in Australia.
#MOHM THREATENED?
We’ve been threatened by those in the horse racing industry and those who benefit from horse slaughter more times than we can count.
But we are not going away.
We are going to persist until horse slaughter no longer exists for any purpose within Australia -- and until the horse racing industry makes drastic changes.
We are going to continue our hands-on work to offer lifelong sanctuary to as many horses as possible. We generally have 20 at just one of our locations - at any given time.
We have the acreage to take on more horses as financial support allows.
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