THANKS HORSE DEALS

FIRSTLY I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU..... HORSE DEALS FOR KEEPING US SO IMFORMED AS TO WHAT IS AND ISN’T HAPPENING IN QLD. I INITIALLY WAS FOLLOWING ALL SITES AS TO THE SITUATION ON EI. BUT LIKE MANY OTHERS KEPT KEEPING ON WITH THE DPI AND IN PARTICULAR QLD.....................I LIKE MOST OTHER’S I NOTICED THAT ON THE 13/9/07 VERY LITTLE INFO WAS COMING THROUGH.
I WILL ELABERATE ON MY STORY SHORTLY BUT FIRST AND FORMOST I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT AFTER A PH. DISCUSSION WITH DPI QLD LAST NITGHT THE PERSON I SPOKE TO HAD NEVER HEARD OF HORSE DEALS......................WITH AN EPIDEMIC OF EI AS WE HAVE I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT SOME ONE MIGHT OF MENTIONED YOU GUY’S WHO ARE VIGILIANT WITH YOUR BLOG SITE AND REPORTS........................I AM SURE YOU WILL HAVE A VERY SMALL MAGAZINE THIS MONTH WITH LOTS OF PEOPLE NOT WANTING TO SPEND MONEY ON ADVERTISING WHEN THEY CAN’T MOVE HORSES....................AND I DO HOPE THAT ALL THE EFFORT YOU HAVE GONE TO IS REWARDED......... I AM REGRETFULL THAT I DIDN’T JUST FOLLOW H/D AND WENT TO THE DPI BUT A GOOD LESSON LEARNT FOR ME . SO AGAIN BEFORE I TELL MY STORY.....................ALL OF YOU THAT ARE POSTING BLOGS LIKE ME MAKE SURE YOU BUY UP BIG ON THE OCT MAG IF NOT FOR H/D I THINK ALOT OF US WOULD STILL BE IN THE DARK....................
SO IF YOUR INTERSTED HERE IS MY LITTLE BIT ON EI AND IN PARTICULAR QLD.

I OWN 4 SHOW HORSES AND I LIVE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF SUNSHINE COAST RACE PRECINCT.

I HAVE BEEN WATCHING HORSES WALK PAST MY FRONT GATE TO THE RACE TRACK FOR THE PAST 2 WEEKS. MY HORSES CANT GO OUT THE GATE. I LIVE ON 1 ACRE THIS IS TAKEN UP BY A LARGE HOUSE 3 BAY GARAGE AND 4 STABLES (SO I GUESS YOU CAN GET THE PICTURE) I USE A GROUND 200MTRS FROM ME TO TRAIN AND EXERCISE MY HORSES. OR SHALL WE SAY I DID...................... SO OUT OF FRUSTRATION I DECIDED TO CALL QLD DPI FOR A SOME ANSWERS. NOW, NO OFFENCE TO THOSE WHO WORK IN THE DPI CALL CENTRE, BUT THEIR RESPONSE WAS NOTHING SHORT OF EXASPERATING.

“CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I AM WATCHING HORSES WALK UP THE ROAD PAST MY GATE TO THE RACE TRACK”............QLD DPI,” THEY ARE RACE HORSES AND THEY NEED TO BE EXERCISED”......
“YES THEY ARE HORSES THE SAME AS MINE WHO ALSO REQUIRE EXERCISE”.....................QLD DPI,” YES, BUT THEY ARE THOROUGHBREDS”....................”YES SO ARE 2 OF MINE, SO CAN I TAKE HIM FOR A WALK”.......................QLD DPI, “NO, IT’S NOT A RACE HORSE”. SO I ASK THE DPI IF THEY ARE WALKING PAST MY FRONT GATE AND LIVE DOWN THE ROAD LESS THAN 100M AWAY, IF THEY ARE GOING TO GET EI THEN SO AM I. THEY ARE IN THE RACE COURSE PRECINCT..............SO AM I. THE STEWARDS AT THE TRACK ARE POLICING BIOSECURITY AT THE TRACK SAYS DPI..............I AM POLICING BIOSECURITY HERE PROBABLY A LOT BETTER THAN THEY ARE........................STILL NO ADEQUATE ANSWERS, SO THEY BUMP ME UP TO THE SUPERVISOR AND AROUND WE GO AGAIN. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PHONE CONVERSATION I TOLD THE DPI IN MY OPINION THEY HAD NO HOPE OF CONTAINING THIS AS BASICALLY THEY REALLY DIDN’T HAVE A GOOD GRIP ON THE SITUATION AS A WHOLE AND WERE PANDERING TO ONE SECTOR OF THE EQUINE INDUSTRY. NOT SURPRISINGLY THERE WAS LITTLE COMMENT BACK.

SO FOLLWING DISCUSSIONS WITH MY LOCAL VET WHO HAD EXPRESSED GENUINE CONCERN FOR MY PREDICAMENT, I MADE APPLICATION VIA MY LOCAL VET TO REMOVE THE LARGEST OF MY HORSES WHO WAS COPING WITH THE SITUATION THE WORST AND WHO IS ALSO A WINDSUCKER, TO A PROPERTY APPROXIMATLY 20KMS FROM ME. THE VET REPORT I AM ESTIMATING WILL COST ME APPROX. $110.

I RECEIVED A FAX STATING IT WAS DECLINED FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS.
1................ I WANTED TO MOVE THE HORSE MORE THAN 10KMS AWAY.
2................ IT DIDN’T REQUIRE EMERGENCY VETERNARY ASSISTANCE.
SO YOU WHO ARE READING THIS SAY............... SO WHAT.
OK.... THE BEST OF IT IS............... THAT I HAVE BEEN INFORMED TODAY THAT HORSES FROM LANDSBOROUGH, BEERWAH, PEACHESTER AS OF MONDAY WILL BE ABLE TO FLOAT TO THE SUNSHINE COAST RACE COURSE TO TRAIN..................... YES BY FLOAT AND THESE PROPERTIES ARE MORE THAN 10KMS FROM THE TRACK.......................
WHEN I SPOKE TO THE DPI AGAIN LAST NIGHT THEY TOLD ME I COULDN’T MOVE AND I MOST DEFINIATLY COULD NOT WALK MY HORSES OUT THE FRONT GATE....... WHEN I QUESTIONED THE RACE HORSES .....................THE ANSWER WAS WELL THEY ARE RACE HORSES AND THEY NEED EXCERCISE..........................YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT MY RESPONSE WAS. .............WELL SO DO MINE THEY ARE DOING THEIR HEADS IN, SMALL PADDOCKS AND NO WORK.......... DPI QLD, OH WELL THEY ARE NOT RACE HORSES SO YOU CANT MOVE OR EXERCISE THEM.
TELL ME THERE ARE NOT TWO AGENDAS RUNNING WITHIN QLD DPI !!!!!! ONE FOR QLD RACING AND ONE FOR...................WELL YOU CAN WORK THAT ONE OUT.
MY SHOW HORSES ARE LIVING IN DUST PADDOCKS WITH NO WORK ALL OF THE COMMON BOARDEM ISSUES ARE REARING THEIR UGLY HEADS, ((((((FENCE WALKING, WINDSUCKING, WOOD CHEWING))))))DO I NEED TO GO ON. WE SHOW HORSE PEOPLE SAVE THE POOR RACE HORSES THAT FALL OFF THE TRACK AND MAKE THEM INTO SOMETHING I.E EVENTER’S, SHOW HORSES, PONY CLUB MOUNTS, PLEASURE HORSES TO NAME A FEW ..............................DARE WE SAY WE GIVE THEM A SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE..........................
SO DPI, QLD WHAT ABOUT SOME SUPPORT FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE THAT TRUELY LOVE HORSES ............................SPEND A FORTUNE ON THEM.............. AND DON’T NEED TO GO TO THE TAB.
FOR ALL ITS WORTH,,, TREAT US AS YOU’RE TREATING THE RACE HORSE INDUSTRY WE ARE RESPONSBLE PEOPLE THAT LOVE OUR HORSES................AND WOULD LOVE TO GET THEM INTO BIGGER PADDOCKS FOR THEIR OWN WELL BEING OR AT LEAST 200M UP THE ROAD FOR SOME EXERCISE.

REGARDS
SUE HEATON