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Sadika
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 Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 6:23:56 PM
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WHY would someone do this??????? Taken from Racing Post:
Former racehorse put down after brutal attack
by Graham Green
POLICE have launched an investigation after a former racehorse had to be put down after suffering horrific facial injuries when attacked in his stable.
Loughdoo was trained by Richard Lee, and raced eight times under rules. A novice handicap chase at Plumpton on October 20, 1997, in which he was pulled by Adrian Maguire, proved his final start.
Renamed Pilgrim by Kylie Tidwell, 23, whose family bought him in 1999, the 19-year-old was found drenched in blood wandering around his paddock at Billingborough Fen, Lincolnshire, on February 11. He had massive injuries to the left side of his head.
A vet called to the scene decided there was no alternative but to end his suffering.
Tidwell told the Stamford Mercury: "There were big cuts to the side of his head. His nose was badly damaged, I could see his teeth through a cut in his cheek, and his eye was almost hanging out of his socket.
“I just keep asking myself what kind of sick weirdos would do this kind of thing to a trusting and defenceless animal who never hurt anyone.”
She added: “It was the hardest decision I've had to make, but the vet told me there was little chance he would survive because the injuries were so severe.
“I loved Pilgrim so much, he gave me back my confidence to ride after a very bad fall. He was the centre of my life and I miss him so much.”
Lee was shocked on Tuesday when told of the circumstances that led to Loughdoo being put down.
"He was a little chestnut horse I bought at Doncaster Sales and he was no star, but he did his best, and it is horrible to think of him being attacked like that,” said Lee.
Inspector Dick Holmes of Lincolnshire Police said: "We are still looking for the person or people who did this. It was a truly horrendous attack on a defenceless animal.
“It has absolutely devastated the horse’s owner and her family, and it is very important that we find the culprits, who are facing a jail term when caught.”
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Danielle
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 6:27:55 PM
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| Words are not good enough to describe the type of person who would do that! I can only hope this person or persons will suffer a similar fate to this poor poor horse, how that owner must feel now is awful poor lady I feel for her suffering, evil bas**r*s, I hate what this world is coming to I really do. |
   
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Taylor
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 6:30:45 PM
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  This is awful, people like this disgust me! I cannot understand why anyone would do this. I feel sick to my stomach reading that. Poor horse and poor owners. My sympathys go out to them |
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Poppy
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 6:33:11 PM
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Marilyn - words absolutely fail me. This is nothing less than evil. I am not a violent person but, I know what I would like to do to such depraved beings if I caught them
The law needs to be drastically changed full stop, to prevent attacks like this. A few slapped wrists and fines are all that are ever meted out - it's disgusting !
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Coloured_Arabs
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 6:34:48 PM
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I read about this is my local paper - that is not very far away from us at all, its very frightening.
I can't understand the mentality behind people who would do such a thing.
I feel so sorry for the owners of this horse it must be a very upsetting time |
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Danielle
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 6:35:02 PM
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| And also why I do not put any of mine in at night, I would rather they cope with the wind and rain than be subjected to that, evil pure evil. |
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Judith S
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 6:48:49 PM
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OMG!!!!! How terribly sad - poor, poor horse...
I might have seen this horse on exercise when he was at Richard Lees - his racing stables was just up the road from us when we lived at Shobdon, Herefordshire. For Richard to express emotion is amazing as hes a hard b*****d.
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Zoe Tyzack
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nicolanapper
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 7:34:29 PM
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Words fail me, that poor, poor horse.
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Roseanne
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 7:35:33 PM
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That takes some believing. How could anyone do something like that? How much does the mind have to be taken over to perpetrate such an atrocity? I hope we can follow this to find out if they catch anyone, what punishment they get and what defence they put forward.
It reminds me of the Peter Shaeffer play 'Equus' which is about a boy who deliberately attacks horses with a knife, and how they find out why he did it. They've just started a new production in London I think.
I feel desperately for the poor owner now who will have this on her mind all her life. Sad, but fortunate that the horse is out of its misery. |
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RandJfleabittengrey
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 8:01:54 PM
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| poor poor owners. my heart goes out to them. but how could someone do something like that..........? ARGH IT MAKES ME MAD. |
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jane79
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Nuttybabez
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 8:03:46 PM
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Thats terrible!! How upsetting!
Words are not enough...I can think of nothing to say. Just terrible. |
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joanna_piana
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 8:05:13 PM
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| That's terrible what sort of person could do that poor poor neddy and so sorry for his owner |
      
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Cassie
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 8:16:34 PM
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Hi Thats disgraceful what makes people do these things, where I live in Norfolk someone set fire to a horse in it stable. I am afraind this sort think seems to be happening all over and something should be done to these people is it society because I don't remember this sort of thing going on when I was a kid. My husband said they need to tried to the back of a horse naked and drag across a field.
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jaybird
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 9:13:34 PM
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all people who attack animals are true true cowards, they cannot take out any frustration against people for fear of being beat, so they attack defenceless animals, and you all know the RSPCA deals with this on a daily basis, I guess we only hear of these type of cases because media get involved, just heard of a cat that was battered to death against a wall by a girls boyfriend, BIG MAN EH! and yes that is the sad thing these people are very cowardly and small, but savage nevertheless.
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arabic
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 9:22:50 PM
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| I couldnt bear to read it all!!! The mental image conjured up of this poor horse wandering around in such a state was more than enough. I will never understand what kind of person can inflict such suffering. They should be found and treated the same only not put out of their misery!!! |
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pat day
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 9:33:21 PM
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Do as you mean to be done by
They would squeel the loudest, mark my words.
Worst Enemy Man-The most savage of all animals, and the one that will torture, and exterminate, going as far as, EVEN doing this to his own kind,and all,....???? AS IF BY RIGHT
I am so angry, sick and disgusted, just the same as watching that Rodeo thread. |
       
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Tahir
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 10:19:12 PM
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That is just unbelievable, poor innocent horse. How can anyone be that sick???
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lady tee
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 10:29:11 PM
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| Just awful, sick demented people or person, feeling so angry and so sad. |
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Vera
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Posted - 20 Feb 2007 : 10:37:23 PM
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Sickening cruelty of the lowest kind.
Roseanne
Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame is playing the lead role in the new London production of Equus.
The plot of the original film.
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Alan Strang is disturbed young man who has a disturbed fascination with horses. He places them in the godlike category. His relationship only gets worse when he works at a stable barn. There, he has almost a bestial relationship with the animals there. When he finally confronts a relationship with a fellow stable girl played nicely by Jenny Agutter. When he feels watched and betrays his god, he commits the most disturbing crime. Warning, this film is not for children or some adults with weak stomachs.
It was a shocking film and although fictional deeply disturbing to watch and still haunts me to this day.
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Emancy
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Zan
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Posted - 21 Feb 2007 : 09:13:00 AM
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It doesn't matter how much you know about man's brutality to animals, when I hear about something like this I feel sick and weak.
Poor poor boy. This will haunt his caring owners for ever and ever. |
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alethea
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Posted - 21 Feb 2007 : 09:18:49 AM
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Completely sick, cant find the words to describe how that makes me feel
Poor poor horse, and owners!
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avanti
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Posted - 21 Feb 2007 : 09:27:14 AM
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| Sickening !!!!!! I have never understood this kind of mentality, poor horse, poor owners, Mandy. |
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Arachnid
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Posted - 21 Feb 2007 : 09:27:39 AM
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I have never been able to face watching Equus and I find it very disturbing that it is produced at all. I hope they catch the sicko. Makes you want to hide your horse away.
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