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Horrors of the Hobby Horse Hall Race Track Remembered
The forgotten scandal of the starving horses. In 1975 I found myself starting a new job as Chief Inspector of the Bahamas Humane Society in Nassau. I had no idea that soon after my arrival I would be sitting alone in a derelict stable at the iconic Hobby Horse Hall Racetrack awaiting help, cradling the…
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Finn’s Law. Do police horses have enough protection
The scenes at the Black Lives Matter protest in London of a police horse bolting riderless down Whitehall past the Cenotaph in terror while others came under attack with bicycles, flares, fireworks and other missiles was quite a poignant reminder of the war horses, and raises the question of whether they have enough protection under Finn’s…