Rescued from unlawful racing, thoroughbred fostered in Tuscany

(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 4 – His identify is Evenafterall, he’s a stupendous nine-year-old bay horse: he was seized final April 23 as a part of an operation performed by the Messina police in opposition to clandestine horse racing. After spending a interval in custody on the College of the Sicilian metropolis, the thoroughbred was entrusted to ‘Italian Horse Safety’, the primary Italian affiliation for the safety of equids, which provided to handle him in its restoration middle in Montaione ( Florence). When ‘Ihp’ obtained Evenafterall’s identification and well being documentation, it carried out a collection of investigations and introduced a criticism to the Messina Prosecutor’s Workplace: the paperwork present that, earlier than ending up within the felony ring of clandestine racing with ‘calessini’ in Sicily , Evenafterall raced on Italian racecourses and took half in 32 official races. “Evenafterall’s story is dramatically exemplary – says Sonny Richichi, president of Ihp -. First he was exploited on racetracks then, when he was now not good for that sort of profession and have become a burden to keep up, he was decommissioned to conclude its unlucky existence within the palms of clandestine racing criminals. We’ve got introduced a criticism to the Prosecutor’s Workplace: we ask that it shed full gentle on what in our opinion is a widespread observe, not an remoted case, to eliminate horses after the top of their racing profession. “. Evenafterall is a bay gelding born on 11 March 2015 on the ‘Arcadia’ equine middle in Villafranca Piemonte (Turin), registered within the pedigree of English thoroughbreds. He competed in 32 races, between 2017 and 2020, within the racecourses of Naples, Rome, Pisa, Follonica, Florence, Corridonia: throughout this era, the horse’s actions are often tracked. On the finish of the aggressive exercise, the info regarding the horse’s actions disappear. Evenafterall ‘re-emerges’ in Sicily in April 2022: this can’t be seen from the transport information (obligatory by regulation) however from the well being documentation regarding the final registered vaccination, carried out by a veterinarian from Palermo. By consulting the official database of the equine registry, it’s found that in 2022 Evenafterall is stored on a farm in Monteroni D’Arbia within the province of Siena, however in the identical interval it was declared “misplaced” in Palermo. In April 2023, the Messina Police Headquarters seized a horse utilized in unlawful races: it seems to be Evenafterall. ‘Italian Horse Safety’ intervenes and obtains custody of the animal. “How did Evenafterall arrive in Sicily after racing within the racecourses? Whose palms did it cross via? How is it doable that it was within the province of Siena and Palermo on the similar time? How did it arrive in Messina? We ask the Prosecutor’s Workplace to analyze to reconstruct everybody the steps that go from the horse’s exit, from the world of racing in central Italy, to its reappearance in felony environments in Sicily” says the president of Ihp, Sonny Richichi. (HANDLE).