Jumping: New Zealand: HORSE ABUSE - ESNZ STATEMENT NO.2=

  As Members will be aware from ESNZ’s statement on its website on Sunday 6^th
  March, and in subsequent media coverage, a Show Hunter horse was attacked in
  its yard at the Egmont A&P Showgrounds last Friday night/Saturday morning.
  The horse was competing in the National Showjumping Series Finals staged
  that weekend in Hawera. The horse (Squirt, owned and ridden by Kathryn
  Corry) received burns to the left side of its face caused by the application
  of a chemical substance, possibly creosote, a wood preservative. The
  condition of the horse is improving slowly, though it is not yet known
  whether it will compete at next week’s Horse of the Year Show in Hastings.