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For all horse lovers, please beware of this terrible cruelty case.
DELIA STACEY, has been <font color="blue"> </font> convicted of horse cruelty after letting a pregnant mare STARVE to death!
This is the article that was published in the Evening Standard on Friday 13 July:
"A RACEHORSE owner who let a pregnant mare starve to death, is facing jail.
DELIA STACEY, 36, was convicted of cruelty after Desert Sand and two other horses were found emaciated and weak by RSPCA inspectors.
The 10-year old bay mare was so malnourished she was unable to stand, and so thin experts could not believe she was pregnant.
She had been kept without food, despite being next to a field containing 1,000 bales of hay.
A vet was unable to save her, and she had to be destroyed with her unborn foal.
In May last year, STACEY, of Reading, admitted three charges of causing unneccessary suffering and given 120 hours of community service and a 28-day suspended jail term.
But only two months later she flouted a court order banning her from being in charge of horses. Caught driving a horse-box containing four polo ponies on the M25 in Surrey, she was convicted of breaching the ban, and this week lost an appeal at Guildford Crown Court. She will be sentenced on 4 August and could now go to jail.
Ted Barnes, Field Officer for the International League for the Protection of Horses, said " To me, the most haunting aspect of the case was the presence of more than 1,000 bales of hay in the next field, all owned by STACEY.
The effort of chucking a bale or two a few yards over the fence was all that was required to avert this tragedy"
STACEY kept Desert Sand and the other horses at her 86-acre Pepperbox Stud in Bramley, Surrey.
Her cruel treatment at the site was exposed after neighbours tipped off the RSPCA and ILPH.
Pathologist Dr Janet Patterson Kane said Desert Sand was beyond all hope because of a prolonged lack of care and it was "a case the lab will never forget". The two surviving horses Side by Side and Chestnut Star were taken by the ILPH.
Guildford Crown Court heard STACEY was then caught breaching the banning order on the M25 in July last year.
Eleanor Davison, prosecuting, said "Stacey was driving that horsebox for some half an hour.....Knowing that she was in clear breach of her ban. She was stopped by an R.S.P.C.A. driver who recognised the vehicle and called the police"
The polo ponies belonged to semi-professional polo player Annabel McNaught-Davis, who had found Stacey on the internet and hired her to drive them to a match"
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW SO THAT THIS WOMAN IS NOT HIRED TO LOOK AFTER ANY HORSES EVER AGAIN
DELIA STACEY, has been <font color="blue"> </font> convicted of horse cruelty after letting a pregnant mare STARVE to death!
This is the article that was published in the Evening Standard on Friday 13 July:
"A RACEHORSE owner who let a pregnant mare starve to death, is facing jail.
DELIA STACEY, 36, was convicted of cruelty after Desert Sand and two other horses were found emaciated and weak by RSPCA inspectors.
The 10-year old bay mare was so malnourished she was unable to stand, and so thin experts could not believe she was pregnant.
She had been kept without food, despite being next to a field containing 1,000 bales of hay.
A vet was unable to save her, and she had to be destroyed with her unborn foal.
In May last year, STACEY, of Reading, admitted three charges of causing unneccessary suffering and given 120 hours of community service and a 28-day suspended jail term.
But only two months later she flouted a court order banning her from being in charge of horses. Caught driving a horse-box containing four polo ponies on the M25 in Surrey, she was convicted of breaching the ban, and this week lost an appeal at Guildford Crown Court. She will be sentenced on 4 August and could now go to jail.
Ted Barnes, Field Officer for the International League for the Protection of Horses, said " To me, the most haunting aspect of the case was the presence of more than 1,000 bales of hay in the next field, all owned by STACEY.
The effort of chucking a bale or two a few yards over the fence was all that was required to avert this tragedy"
STACEY kept Desert Sand and the other horses at her 86-acre Pepperbox Stud in Bramley, Surrey.
Her cruel treatment at the site was exposed after neighbours tipped off the RSPCA and ILPH.
Pathologist Dr Janet Patterson Kane said Desert Sand was beyond all hope because of a prolonged lack of care and it was "a case the lab will never forget". The two surviving horses Side by Side and Chestnut Star were taken by the ILPH.
Guildford Crown Court heard STACEY was then caught breaching the banning order on the M25 in July last year.
Eleanor Davison, prosecuting, said "Stacey was driving that horsebox for some half an hour.....Knowing that she was in clear breach of her ban. She was stopped by an R.S.P.C.A. driver who recognised the vehicle and called the police"
The polo ponies belonged to semi-professional polo player Annabel McNaught-Davis, who had found Stacey on the internet and hired her to drive them to a match"
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW SO THAT THIS WOMAN IS NOT HIRED TO LOOK AFTER ANY HORSES EVER AGAIN
