At nearly 20 years of age, Cumboogle Flash was an older horse.
A beautiful chestnut thoroughbred gelding with bling, a horse that deserved to be loved and to live out his retirement in a green paddock.
Instead, he was left at the Echuca saleyards by people who let him down and cared nothing for his future.
Confused and scared, he had no idea what was happening.
Not deemed worthwhile by anyone other than a meat man, his fate was sealed.
Shepp Meats wanted him, not for the gentle horse he was, but only for the money they could make from his meat.
That was in March 2019 and for years was the typical outcome for the majority of thoroughbreds and standardbreds dumped at the Echuca auction.
The fear and desperation in Cumboogle’s eyes as he looked out of the back of the Shepp truck touched the hearts of many people, in particular the people filming him who will have his face etched into their memory forever.
Their horror was added to when they saw that it was a husband and wife team callously driving Cumboogle and the other 35 horses from Victoria to Queensland to be brutally slaughtered.
Do you know who they are?
They are well known horse transporters who, at that time, were from Victoria.
Once in a while a horse will tug at the heart strings, not because they are more special than any other horse but because you get a chance to experience what they are feeling.
Cumboogle Flash’s death must not be in vain, his memory is for all the horses that die because they are considered “wastage” or are just unwanted.
Please be a part of the solution to work toward stopping horses like Cumboogle meeting the same fate.
#MOHM NEEDS YOUR HELP!
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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