Centre helps racehorses to a new future

Every year hundreds of thoroughbred racehorses become surplus to requirements, either through injury, old age or simply failing to make the grade within racing.

By The Newsroom

Published 12th Aug 2005, 14:48 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 03:37 BST

West Sussex is home to a centre dedicated to the rehabilitation of ex-racehorses, enabling them to be reschooled and eventually re-homed to a loving and caring environment.

The Moorcroft Racing Welfare Centre at Huntingrove Stud, Slinfold, is run by Graham Oldfield, an ex-King's Troop RHA, lead driver and formerly a BHS Inspector. He is also on the national panel of dressage judges, is a dressage trainer and competitor.

His partner Sue Collins, who acts as yard manager, has managed her own yard for many years and has re-schooled ex-racehorses to compete at a high level of competition.

They originally started in inadequate premises in East Sussex in a small way, but their burning ambition to better the lot of horses coming out of racing spurred them on to looking for permanent and bigger facilities.

Full story in West Sussex Gazette August 25.