The Echo Memorial Appeal, launched by The Home of Rest for Horses to raise funds to win the battle against equine colic, is now in full swing.
Well supported by family horse-owners and horse-lovers, donations are being received daily.
Echo was the Metropolitan Police horse who cheated the 1982 Hyde Park bomb attack but tragically lost his life to colic in 2003. Echo's 20 years
in retirement at The Home of Rest for Horses were punctuated by bouts of colic as a result of this trauma.
"We are enormously grateful to all those who have given towards this campaign but more is needed," says Home of Rest for Horses chief executive
Paul Jepson. "We recognise the desperate need of those whose lives have been devastated by hurricane and earthquake this autumn, but urge the public
to recognise also the urgency of research into this agonising and occasionally deadly complaint."
"It is a terrible thing to see a horse in the throes of a colic attack and something which many horse owners have witnessed. No matter how well the
animal is loved and cared for or whether it is the highest-bred racing horse or the smallest of ponies colic is dangerous and can kill."
"By supporting The Echo Memorial Appeal more money can be devoted to research the causes, management and treatment of colic. Please give generously,"
Mr Jepson added.
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