Please help these beautiful ex-racehorses in need

Deirdre Stein is a well known and respected former racehorse trainer, with a decades-long career working with the horses she loves so dearly.

Now aged in her eighties, Deirdre gives back to the horses by rescuing, retiring and rehoming ex-racehorses - including some saved directly from the dogger’s trucks.

Deidre’s property in Eagleby is a haven for these beautiful ex racehorses that have given their lives to the sport, as well as the owners and lessees who dote on them. Deirdre makes no profit, as the lease fee only covers feed for each horse. In fact, Deirdre spends much of her own money buying hay, medicine, feed and whatever her beloved horses need.

Now - for the second time in recent years - the property has been absolutely devastated by the Brisbane flood crisis.

The stables are under water, feed, hay and precious medicine has been lost, nothing can be salvaged, everything is gone.

The horses were all saved, with some being led by a boat to the little higher ground left. They are suffering swollen legs and are badly bitten by insects, with cuts and abrasions, and are being tirelessly looked after day and night.

But we need your help.

Please, if there is anything at all you can spare, no matter how small, it would mean so much to these beautiful horses and the wonderful Deirdre and stable manager Louise, who stop at nothing (and at great personal cost) to give them a safe and loving home.

Deidre would never ask for help, and is currently cut off from roads, with no power, with boats from her beautiful neighbours regularly checking on her. So I am doing this on her behalf.

All donations will go directly to the stable manager to purchase essential hay, feed, medicine, insecticides, and the basic necessities to try and get these beautiful horses’ lives back on track.