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7-30 Report - What do we make of it?
West Australian Racing
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The industry needs to do more. More though means costs passed on to trainers, then owners, eventually making the sport inaccessible to most. Not sure what the solution is, less horses bred? Tougher regulations? Horses are chipped, surely they require tracking at every point in their life till the end?
Maybe their needs to be an industry supplied abbatoir/end of life service because what they show on the report this evening is some disgusting humans working in these places.
Disgusted and upset. Absolutely horrible. VLandys has come out a huge dill. The industry will be getting smashed over this. And fair enough, it's not good enough.
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Having said that, I am not opposed in principle to a horse being humanely destroyed at an abbatoir.
I think it's a personal choice. Some people see horses as livestock and some of us get much more sentimentally involved.
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All these horses are micro chipped. True regulation would see them scanned when ever they get on a truck and go somewhere, race and spell. I should be able to print out a full movement history with time/date stamps. That is complete transparency. It will cost more. It will require more done by participants. As I said previously though, these regulations and actions costs will transfer to the owners, which will make ownership out of reach for the majority of us.
I don't have an issue with meat trade, if there is a market for it, then that is fine. But the animals for meat shouldn't be ex race horses. No way.
What levy's are currently in place for breeders to breed horse for racing? If a horse is bred for racing then there should be a "end of racing" levy attached to it. Held by an independent body much like when a bond is held when renting. Again, more costs, but transparency and preventive action, not reactionary.
As an owner I will be doing more at the retirement stage, it should be our responsibility with guidance from trainers as to what can be possible after racing. Previously I've left the re homing to those in a better position and knowledge to do this, and trust this, however I've failed in following these re homings up to make sure. Any one who owns a horse should be able to say with 100% certainty what happens to there horse when it stops racing. I can't. And that is a problem.
I think a few trainers might be getting calls today to just reinforce there stances as to the practices of disposal/retirement. In my opinion, there is a whole new part of the industry that can be created to ensure that everything done is in the best interests if the animal.
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When i lived in Tassie on acres a decade and a half ago- i had an old farmer as a neighbour - and we got talking - and he told me as a young bloke - he had to slit - cut the throats of young lambs that was his job ( he must have been in some abbatoir ) and he said to me it distressed him greatly
So cattle and sheep are slaughtered - so with the horses i mean what do you do - yes try alot harder to get good homes for them post racing - or reduce the numbers bred - but your still going to have excess - and what do you do with them - and as a couple of posters have mentioned - some horses are evil - put their feed in their bin - while their still in the box - if your young and inexpierenced you will only do that once in your life .
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