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This time last week, Newmarket trainer Gay Kelleway and her small team of volunteers were arriving at the Poland-Ukraine border on a mercy mission to support the horses that have become collateral damage of the war with Russia.
It was the second time that Kelleway, the first female jockey to ride a winner at Royal Ascot when successful on Sprowston Boy in 1987, has embarked on the 2,800-mile round trip.
What she has witnessed has made her even more determined to help. Kelleway said: ‘What I have seen is terrible. There is a hub for the horses near the border close to Lviv and we heard gunfire in the distance. There are some poor people who are managing to get horses to the border but then have to abandon them because they have no money to get them across.
Gay Kelleway says what she has seen on her visits to the border has been 'terrible'
Millions of refugees have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion of the country in February
‘They are hoping people like us will get them, look after them and help them to be fostered.
‘One girl brought her pony in a trailer. She was 25 and said she had lost everything and wanted to kill herself. There are a few racehorses but it is all types — mares, foals, ponies. One
