Staff and grooms at World Horse Welfare’s Hall Farm Rescue and Rehoming Centre were delighted to meet a new addition to their team one morning last week…
Mare Winona had given birth overnight last to a colt foal, who was bright and healthy and immediately captured the hearts of everyone at Hall Farm.
A social media competition to name the foal was won at the weekend by the name ‘Captain Tom’ after Captain Tom Moore, the nearly-100-year old Second World War veteran who has raised a staggering £28m for the NHS after walking 100 laps of his garden.
Centre manager Sue Hodgkins said: “We decided to pick ‘Captain Tom’ after the inspiring Captain Tom Moore because he shares some of the qualities we feel our welfares also have to possess in order to survive the ordeals they go through before coming into World Horse Welfare. They have to be resilient, stoic, determined, positive, selfless – which certainly applies to our mares who come into the farm in foal or with foals at foot – and forgiving.
“As Captain Tom grows, his name will also help to remind us of how we all adapted and coped during this lockdown and that Winona produced this bundle of joy at such a strange time.”.
Everyone at Hall Farm is looking forward to watching Captain Tom grow and develop and hoping that it will not be long before the centre can reopen to the public so that everyone can come and meet him.
