Equine Superstar Launches 75th Anniversary

An equine superstar, and guest of honour at Equus 2002, at ExCeL, in London's
Docklands, will officially be launching the 75th Anniversary of the ILPH (International
League for the Protection of Horses) on Thursday 4th April.


Bob showing off
photo courtesy of Bournemouth News.

Founded in 1927 by Ada Cole, from Norfolk, the ILPH celebrates its 75th Anniversary
this year and who better to launch the celebrations than their Equine Ambassador,
ILPH Bob the Cob.

Bob has a very busy schedule at Equus this year starting bright and early on Thursday
4th when he will be in the main ring to officially open the event.

At 3.45 that afternoon he will be having a party where, with the aid of an equine carrot
cake kindly donated by Dodson & Horrell, he will officially munch, no, launch the ILPH
into its 75th Anniversary celebrations.

At 4.15, immediately following his celebrations, he will go into the main arena with
Michael Peace who will be giving him his official backing.* That is backing Bob for the
first time, watch out Michael ! They will be appearing again in the main arena on
Sunday at 11.40 am.

Bob will also be in the 'Horse and Rider' sponsored Healthy Horse Stable Yard on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 11.20 am and 3.20 pm assisting Tony Tyler,
Manager, ILPH Norfolk Centre with his lecture demos.



Find out more about the work of the ILPH by visiting their website at www.ilph.org