Animal welfare groups fear horses taken from a site near Clonmel may be destroyed.
The malnourished animals were removed from Knocklofty last night and this morning.
It followed a week of national condemnation at the treatment of the horses who were abandoned and left to starve.
A number of animals died from starvation…..Tipperary County Council in consultation with the Gardaí yesterday began a major operation to take the remaining horses to a pound Cork.
