The racing industry is mourning the death on Tuesday of Pat Cavendish O’Neill, the great animal lover, author, racehorse trainer and breeder associated with former champion breeders, Broadlands Stud. She was 93.
O’Neill was an activist and a philanthropist, who will be remembered not only for breeding top thoroughbreds. In the 1990s, she turned Broadlands from a stud farm into an animal sanctuary and her lasting endeavours included her well-publicised campaign of rescuing lobsters from restaurants, to playing nanny to animals of all shapes and sizes — all who took refuge at her picturesque Somerset West farm...
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