A thoroughbred racehorse that once sold for £240,000 was among eleven rescued from a Co Cork farm where animals were found in an emaciated condition in stables full of manure
War Celeste, a seven-year-old mare, was bought by the China Racing Club at a Tattersalls sale in October 2013.
Volunteers from the rescue organisation visited the farm with officials from the Department of Agriculture where they found the animals in an emaciated condition with no access to food. "To be able to manage to get those horses out there had to be a bit of assessment done. The door had to be broken off and the manure had to be dug out in order to provide a slope or trench for them to climb down off it and onto the ground.Ms Doyle said it was hard to tell how long the animals had been on the farm, but it had clearly been a lengthy period.
Sadly, Ms Doyle said that two of the five horses taken in by her organisation had to be euthanised as they were severely underweight."On the inside there can potentially be a lot of damage caused by the starvation."
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