Colic can strike any horse at any time and is the worst nightmare for any horse owner. No matter how well the animal is loved and cared for or whether it is the highest-bred racing horse or the smallest of ponies - colic is dangerous and can kill.

Most bouts are mild and either respond quickly to treatment or get better spontaneously. However colic is potentially life threatening and the progression from normal to dead or dying can be as short as 4 hours.
Echo, one of our bravest residents, survivor of the Hyde Park bomb blast of 1982, eventually lost his life to colic. Echo spent 20 years in tranquillity at our Buckinghamshire home for retired working horses. As the UK's leading funder of research into equine ailments, The Home has already devoted thousands of pounds to research the causes, management and treatment of colic. We need to take that step further forward and find the missing pieces to the jigsaw and help beat colic.

The Home of Rest for Horses has set up the Echo Memorial Appeal "to win the battle against equine colic". Every penny raised in Echo’s name will be devoted to this objective.

To make a difference to all horses worldwide please give generously to this Appeal and help us beat colic.