More than 100 allegedly maltreated Polish Arabian horses are receiving rehabilitative care after being removed from a breeding farm in Centreville, Md., last week.

Queen Anne’s County Maryland Animal Services Department Director David MacGlashan said that county animal welfare authorities began monitoring conditions at Canterbury Farms in 2010 after receiving complaints about the horses’ condition. County welfare authorities and a veterinarian instructed the farm’s owner to improve the horses’ care, but the animal’s condition did not improve, MacGlashan said.

"About 45 days ago, we went in and the horses’ condition had gotten worse," he said.

On April 15, the farm owner surrendered seven of the animals, MacGlashan said. At that time, a veterinarian euthanized six of the seven animals, including five elderly broodmares. All were in poor condition, he said