IN 1931, a member of the Melrose gentry, Dorothy E. Brooke, now living in Cairo, was horrified to see hundreds of emaciated war-horses stumbling around the city, desperately in need of food and medical attention. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17214688.the-scots-socialite-who-bought-thousands-of-old-war-horses-in-cairo/