The proprietor of a Yorkshire stud farm who was one of many few remaining breeders of Cleveland Bays – a favorite of the late Queen Elizabeth – has been banned from protecting equines.
Jane Elizabeth Moore was given a suspended jail sentence by Hull Magistrates Court, which heard she had uncared for 36 horses dwelling at Jemoon Stud Farm in Market Weighton, East Riding.
The RSPCA prosecuted the 66-year-old and have been efficiently granted an order to take 30 equines into their care.
When inspectors visited her yard in early 2023, they discovered numerous animals in misery, together with a stallion referred to as Puzzle Pic n Mix, who had dental points and a diseased penis. A male Cleveland Bay referred to as Earlswood Traveller had lameness and a lice infestation, and one other stallion referred to as Spadge was additionally lame, had a sinus cyst and ‘obvious ill health’.
A bay mare, Henby, had ulcerated cheeks, and 5 different horses referred to as Hedi, Whizz, Robbie and Nellie have been in poor situation and likewise lame.
Bay mare Cassie was a sufferer of ‘poor husbandry’, piebald mare Pollyanna was infested with mites, and Basil, JDJ5 and Sammy additionally had insufficient dental care. Bay gelding Archie and a chestnut mare had not been given ache reduction of correct hoof care, and a piebald mare referred to as Lucky had an contaminated sheath that had not been handled.
Moore was charged below the Animal Welfare Act and pleaded responsible to 10 counts of inflicting pointless struggling to a protected animal, in addition to neglecting her responsibility to make sure the welfare of 36 equines in her care. They didn’t have satisfactory diet, an acceptable surroundings, farrier consideration, veterinary and dental remedy, and preventative remedy for lice and mites.
Moore was given a 26-week jail sentence suspended for twenty-four months due to the intense nature of her offending, which resulted in a number of of the horses having to be put to sleep. She was ordered to pay the RSPCA’s prices of £14,000.
She was disqualified from protecting horses, ponies and donkeys for 10 years.
Jemoon Stud’s Facebook web page, final up to date in June, advertises that the farm ‘breeds high quality present/competitors horses together with pure/half bred Cleveland Bays. Currently standing 5 stallions, producing for the longer term.”
Moore was listed as certainly one of round 30 registered breeders of pure Cleveland Bays by the Cleveland Bay Society in 2022 – certainly one of whom was the late Queen. It is Elizabeth II who’s credited with saving the breed within the UK, as in 1962 she bought one of many 4 purebred stallions remaining within the nation to stop it being bought to an American purchaser. Within 15 years there have been 36 males for stud.
