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| For Immediate Release, Wednesday 29 January 2020 Gerry Harvey Bred Horse Found Among The Dead At Toowoomba Bred in 2001 by billionaire entrepreneur Gerry Harvey of Harvey Norman success, Derrycarna is among the thirty plus horses whose bodies remain rotting at the property in Toowoomba. Today, CPR investigators confirmed the mare to be yet another registered racehorse, bringing the running tally of known racehorses to have starved to death at the property to six. Background here. Used by Harvey for breeding, Derrycarna foaled six lives over seven years before being placed into the hands of Mr R Lynch. Here she was used to breed two more foals before eventually ending up and the haunting Toowoomba property and succumbing to her horrific fate. One of Derrycarna’s foals, bred by Gerry Harvey, earned almost $1.8 million, mostly after being exported to Hong Kong. “Even producing a winning horse of almost $2 million in prizemoney and being bred by one of Australia’s richest men, currently worth $1.6 BILLION does not protect you from being left to starve to death in a paddock” said Elio Celotto, Campaign Director for the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR). “Gerry Harvey is said to own over 600 thoroughbreds himself, whilst irresponsibly continuing to breed and sell more, knowing full well these horses will mostly end up at killed at the slaughterhouse or left to slowly suffer and die somewhere” Mr Celotto said. “The endless cycle of breeding, racing and then discarding innocent animals without any accountability needs to come to an end.” “The multi billion dollar racing industry that makes its money of the back of the thoroughbred, at the very least must provide every single racehorse with a retirement plan -whatever the cost.”  ENDS More images available on request. For More information: horseracingkills.com |
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