BRUMBIES AT CAMDEN SALES

It is with great sadness that we have to tell you that today 63 Brumbies from the Northern region of the Kosciuszko National Park were trucked to the Camden (outer Sydney) horse sales to be sold for slaughter.

We heard our first rumours about this at 9.30pm last night and managed to get media and the RSPCA to attend as well as some independent observers. The Brumbies were in poor condition and several had unacceptable injuries. There is no question that wild horses have absolutely no place at public horse sales. Trucking them for hours to get there only to be publicly exposed and further terrified as they were run through the sales is cruel and inhumane and must not be allowed to happen again.

Although there were some members of the public interested in buying some of the Brumbies, the auctioneers seemed unable to see them bidding until the media arrived. As a result, 61 of the 63 Brumbies were sold for slaughter for pet food. They will now be further transported to a knackery, there to await their fate. We wish the private purchasers of the young filly and colt the very best with their new and very lucky Brumbies.

You can read some of the story <here> and we hope that you’ll hear more about it in coming days in the media:

Between September and November last year, the VBA took nearly forty Brumbies from the Northern Kosi unit, where the Brumbies that went through Camden today came from. A change in NPWS management in the Kosi unit has been disastrous to our efforts to rehome the Kosciuszko Brumbies and they now seem uninterested in rehoming these Brumbies to us.

I have attached some photos of our beautiful Kosi Brumbies. May the Brumbies who were sold at Camden today Rest in Peace.