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Wednesday 24 October 2007

Time for some answers from Queensland DPI

It is now approaching 8 weeks since the outbreak of EI started here in Queensland. In that time things have gone from bad to worse for the performance horse people.

We have no idea when this thing is going to end and we can start to get our lives back and start to earn a living for some and go back to competing for others.

During the last 8 weeks we have seen the race horse industry run the Qld DPI and tell them what they will and will not do, who they will vaccinate and who they will not, in the mean time the rest of us have been left to fend for our selves. Yes the State government came out in a big fan fare with assistance and their warm and fuzzy shops, but there is no use offering hope if you make the assistance unreachable for the those that really need it.

The time has come for some answers! Honest ones not political clap trap
What time frame are we looking at for some sort of horse movement again?( a actual date)

Will horses in the Red Zone be allowed to move around in the Red Zone and out into the Green Zone for competitions and breeding purposes
Will horses from the green zone be allowed to come in and out of the red zone for competitions and breeding purposes.

What plan of action do you have in place for horses that are in the red zone that have not contracted EI? Do you plan to vaccinate these to create a bigger buffer zone.

We can not continue to go on with out some plan of action for our future. You have one for the race horse industry how about one for the rest of us, we pay taxes as well .

A frustrated and P####D of horse ownerPhil

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here Here I'm with you. The thoroughbreds are racing, so I quess the rest of us can go to hell. They are now saying June next year, don't know why they didn't just make it August and be done with it, nice and neat, a whole year. I for one, won't be sticking around, cause my horses just don't count, in the big picture.

24 October 2007 at 10:07 am  

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