A few weeks back I got a text off my best mate to say that another horse had "died" at "that" yard that Thug went to where they beat him.
The test actually read "A horse was put down at XXxXXX a few weeks ago and some sick b****** put it on you tube with the horse impaled on a pole".
I was stunned but looked on youtube for confirmation and couldn't find anything so assumed it was just a sick rumour.
On Sunday I picked up one of the women who keeps a horse up there and so said I'd heard that a horse had died up their yard. Nothing prepared me for what she told me.
She agreed and said yes, the same woman and man who beat Thug whilst trying to break him in had been schooling a 13.2 pony in the menage.
The young owner was on holiday (as was the woman telling me this) and had only owned the pony a few weeks.
Allegedly the pony had a "paddy fit" and jumped out of the menage into the next field. Just as they were debating how to get the pony back round it allegedly jumped back in and they noticed a piece of wood protruding out of its chest
They walked it back to its stable and rang the vet. He arrived and although the pony was relatively calm, after inspecting the wound fully decided that due to the size of the operation needed to remove the pole versus recuperation and insurance that the pony was better off euthanased.
They did not shoot him due to the amount of young children around, so used drugs, although the woman said that it took a long time for him to die due to his blood pressure being very low.
The sickening thing is this - this woman told me that after the vet had left, the woman who owns the yard went and got a knife from her kitchen and cut the pony open to determine how big the piece of wood was
And the woman telling me was trying to reassure me saying "it's ok though, there was no blood"
Apparently the wood had entered his chest and had lodged just below his stifle
She then took pictures of what she'd done to show the pony's owner how bad the injury was
I am completely sickened and have finally blown the whistle
Run free sweetheart, I hope and pray that your death wasn't in vain and that something is finally done to close down this hellhole