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Horse dies in car accident

17/12/2020 - a car collided with a gig that detached itself from the horse. The latter, frightened, began to run madly, bumping into other vehicles and then crashed into a car coming from the opposite direction
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Agrigento, clandestine race blocked: 38 denunciations

15/12/2020 - As reported by some press agencies, the Mobile Squad of the Agrigento Police intervened in force to block a clandestine race that was taking place along a provincial road in Ciccobriglio di Naro district.
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IHP, our 2021 calendar to give a new home to seropositive horses

03/12/2020 - Italian Horse Protection once again chooses empathy, contact and mutual respect as a unifying thread for the 12 months of its new calendar crafted by photographer Francesco Caruso who, through an elegant range of images, photographed the models selected by the Academy Model Management agency in Padua. Professionals who have given their time free of charge to tell the story of the daily commitment of our Association to care for mistreated and abused horses
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He killed the horse that he "wanted to punish": has been sentenced to a year in prison, but will not serve even a day

01/12/2020 - Reading the reasons submitted for the sentence, we understand why the penalty was so mild and Thornton is still in plain sight in the international rankings: the FEI had written in the sentence that "the horse had been whipped repeatedly, substantially and excessively and clearly more than the three times asserted by Thornton, but not recognizing in this the cause of death of the horse. In truth, entrenched behind the fact that the autopsy had failed to confirm the cause of death, the FEI court concluded that it "was not called into question and therefore had no means of deciding on Thornton’s responsibility for the tragic death of the horse".
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Will the “botticelle” move to the Roman parks? May be

01/12/2020 - Though we consider this approval a small step forward and an act of good will, we will only be satisfied when the “botticelle” are definitively abolished, thus bringing Rome to year 2021, a time in which this highly outdated service should have disappeared a long time ago.
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Uccise il cavallo che “voleva punire”: condannato a un anno di prigione, ma non sconterà neanche un giorno

30/11/2020 - Uccise il cavallo che “voleva punire”: condannato a un anno di prigione, ma non sconterà neanche un giorno
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The agony of horses in Argentina: shock inquiry reveals the tortures inflicted on animals before the slaughterhouse.

25/11/2020 - Gigantic heaps of dead horses, pits full of hungry colts whose mothers have just been slaughtered, atrocious suffering inflicted on the animals before they were cut to pieces in order to allocate their meat to the international trade, up to the plate of Italians. A terryfing level of mistreatment and atrocity
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IHP, sudden death of a mare. There have been 18 cases since 2018

17/11/2020 - Questa mattina Ola, cavalla di 26 anni, è morta improvvisamente al centro di recupero di IHP a Tignano (Volterra). La dinamica ricalca quella delle 17 morti di altrettanti animali che si sono susseguite dal 31 dicembre 2018 a oggi e rimaste ancora senza una spiegazione scientifica attendibile
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Coronavirus, l’assistenza ai cavalli può e deve essere garantita

13/11/2020 - coming soon
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Mafia and clandestine racing, the IHP appeal to Carabinieri and Prosecutor's office

11/11/2020 - Horses abused to death to bring money into the coffers of the mafia with clandestine races. The "Cesare" operation, conducted last night by the Carabinieri of Messina and coordinated by the DDA, dismantled a criminal group linked to the Galli mafia clan and raised the veil over a practice, that of illegal horse racing, which IHP has been denouncing for years
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