The Ministry of Agriculture blocked the sale of these ponies to a Belgian "riding school" after finding it was a front for a horsemeat business. The 41 cross bred ponies were being sold by an abbatoir in Crawley in Sussex. It is illegal to export horses from the UK for slaughter but there is a big market for horse meat in Europe. 20 December 1991 Picture by Roger Bamber

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