Everyone together
For months now i have heard people saying we need to join together EVERYONE.
But by that most people are meaning pleasure Vs Racing. What they dont understanding is a huge number of racing people are from the pleasure industry.
I am huge in the pleasure industry like everyone else i compete every weekend, donate alot of money and time to it. Yet like many i have spoken to i am feeling alienated from my own society.
My family own a couple of country race horses. And people have made unpleasant comments about how we don't need to worry we are being looked after and that we aren't like everyone else. we have 10 very large Pleasure horses on a small property to feed, cant work them, cant move them. how are we not like everyone else?.
Our Trainers are also huge in showing competitions. They have won many competitions in showing, and always donates the prize money back. And as far as i am concerned some of the nicest most honest people i have met. People are saying that the racing industry is crying poor, yet as far as i have heard pleasure people have done most of the complaining, even though alot don't make money from events. I have lost lots of money from this outbreak, yet i still look at it as if my glass is half full. So many people have lost their jobs from this yet are still fighting on. Instead of feeling sorry for my self i am feeling for the strappers, farriers, track riders, stud hands from all kinds of studs, horse breakers, trainers etc.
Although we cant compete, trail ride, or even move sold horses if we havent lost our jobs or our businesses haven't gone down the drain, maybe we need to take some time to think about the others and let them put their hand out first. Come together as one soceity and help each other.
One Horse Person to Another :)
But by that most people are meaning pleasure Vs Racing. What they dont understanding is a huge number of racing people are from the pleasure industry.
I am huge in the pleasure industry like everyone else i compete every weekend, donate alot of money and time to it. Yet like many i have spoken to i am feeling alienated from my own society.
My family own a couple of country race horses. And people have made unpleasant comments about how we don't need to worry we are being looked after and that we aren't like everyone else. we have 10 very large Pleasure horses on a small property to feed, cant work them, cant move them. how are we not like everyone else?.
Our Trainers are also huge in showing competitions. They have won many competitions in showing, and always donates the prize money back. And as far as i am concerned some of the nicest most honest people i have met. People are saying that the racing industry is crying poor, yet as far as i have heard pleasure people have done most of the complaining, even though alot don't make money from events. I have lost lots of money from this outbreak, yet i still look at it as if my glass is half full. So many people have lost their jobs from this yet are still fighting on. Instead of feeling sorry for my self i am feeling for the strappers, farriers, track riders, stud hands from all kinds of studs, horse breakers, trainers etc.
Although we cant compete, trail ride, or even move sold horses if we havent lost our jobs or our businesses haven't gone down the drain, maybe we need to take some time to think about the others and let them put their hand out first. Come together as one soceity and help each other.
One Horse Person to Another :)
posted by Horse Deals Reader at
4:27 pm
2 Comments:
I'm sorry that you feel alienated, I can't speak for anyone else, but my frustration with the Racing Industry is at the decision making level!
Regardless of whether one belongs to the pleasure/performance horse sector or the racing sector, the people at the grass roots level (and there are many of us) are all in the same boat. So if opportunities are available to you, take them!
It is the inequity in the decisions being made that is upsetting me.
I am ashamed of those who have made you feel an outsider.
hi, sorry to hear how your feeling. i used to work in the horse industry, but now don't still got my horses, and was looking foward to competing this season. ive lost out as one of my horses is for sale and she's not gone due to the break out. this is very annoying, but when i first heard about the flu, all the media went on aobut was the racing and a tiny bit on centinnal park. making it seem like it was only them affected. but the media blow everything up in the wrong way and made things worse. as for the funding money that may be a kettle of fish.
if the government runs it anything like the drought money which many of us are already involved with. many will not bother in applying ofr it, as if they've been knocked back for that what's to say they will get knocked back again. as for the help via centrelink, if thay is done like drought force, you'll just get fustrated with it. i know i do and it's not much help especially if your partner work in a different industry.
any way must be of take care and lets hope this is over with soon so we can resume over lives.
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