Horses from the PURPLE ZONE freely moving to the AMBER ZONE
Wow if only I owned magic racehorses as they are allowed to come from Sydney (Purple Zone) into Kembla Grange Illawarra region ....TO RACE!
Oh yes they have been vaccinated, which don't read me wrong this is what I want for my horses, but a vaccinated horse can still carry the virus.
And yes DPI I know that "racehorse vets" will be swabbing for the virus ect ect ect but are you really seeing the irony of this????
More floats on the road, more horses in transit and a bigger risk of the virus spreading.
But you equestrian people make sure you stay at home keeping those germ developing, virus carrying second grade horses at a standstill won't you and don't you dare vaccinate as it is ILLEGAL for you to. Can't have them mixing with royalty in racing can we???
So now magic racehorses are allowed to travel within zones comfortably. Wow!!
You know what I think?.......while the racing industry forges ahead and brings in the millions the DPI has allowed our equestrian sporthorse and pleasure industry to deteriorate fast. They have depreciated the value of our industry as a whole. It has taken years of hard work for Australia to get on the same tables as leading sporthorse countries. Oh and not because we were never good enough but lets face facts here we had to just keep showing our face, our flag, at these world events until they recognised us a "maybe in with a chance as they just keep turning up", and then we won!!!!! BUT........
But we may start to lose those rankings we have spent years achieving and we may be set back years in our dedicated work. In 5 years time how are we going to buy nice Aussie bred 4 years olds to train on as our olympic hopeful when there aren't many around...if any! How many mares went in foal this year.
So now the government has just forced more importations of 4 year old overseas stock in 2012. Great move DPI. Well done! Really got to take my hat off to you that you have the gall to tell us in the sporthorse and pleasure industry "to LOCKDOWN and lose everything (and we have) but sorry we can't stand up to the racing industry as they intimidate us and we don't want to make them angry. Plus we are a government body anyway and the government makes a packet out of gambling with racehorses. But we will make a mockery ourselves with the 83% of all other horse owners and industry workers."
Talk about rubbing salt into the wound. Thanks DPI for yet losing more brownie points with me.
As an EFA member I can have only performance card registered horses vaccinated (at my cost) but not my up and coming novice horses, even though it would be at my expense and they are all on my property!!
Oh it seems to get better and better day by day. The rest of the world must be having a field day with us. Probably got us on 'Funniest Australian Disasters".
Tracy Stead
Equestrian ServicesNCAS EFA Riding Coach & Equine Trainer
Oh yes they have been vaccinated, which don't read me wrong this is what I want for my horses, but a vaccinated horse can still carry the virus.
And yes DPI I know that "racehorse vets" will be swabbing for the virus ect ect ect but are you really seeing the irony of this????
More floats on the road, more horses in transit and a bigger risk of the virus spreading.
But you equestrian people make sure you stay at home keeping those germ developing, virus carrying second grade horses at a standstill won't you and don't you dare vaccinate as it is ILLEGAL for you to. Can't have them mixing with royalty in racing can we???
So now magic racehorses are allowed to travel within zones comfortably. Wow!!
You know what I think?.......while the racing industry forges ahead and brings in the millions the DPI has allowed our equestrian sporthorse and pleasure industry to deteriorate fast. They have depreciated the value of our industry as a whole. It has taken years of hard work for Australia to get on the same tables as leading sporthorse countries. Oh and not because we were never good enough but lets face facts here we had to just keep showing our face, our flag, at these world events until they recognised us a "maybe in with a chance as they just keep turning up", and then we won!!!!! BUT........
But we may start to lose those rankings we have spent years achieving and we may be set back years in our dedicated work. In 5 years time how are we going to buy nice Aussie bred 4 years olds to train on as our olympic hopeful when there aren't many around...if any! How many mares went in foal this year.
So now the government has just forced more importations of 4 year old overseas stock in 2012. Great move DPI. Well done! Really got to take my hat off to you that you have the gall to tell us in the sporthorse and pleasure industry "to LOCKDOWN and lose everything (and we have) but sorry we can't stand up to the racing industry as they intimidate us and we don't want to make them angry. Plus we are a government body anyway and the government makes a packet out of gambling with racehorses. But we will make a mockery ourselves with the 83% of all other horse owners and industry workers."
Talk about rubbing salt into the wound. Thanks DPI for yet losing more brownie points with me.
As an EFA member I can have only performance card registered horses vaccinated (at my cost) but not my up and coming novice horses, even though it would be at my expense and they are all on my property!!
Oh it seems to get better and better day by day. The rest of the world must be having a field day with us. Probably got us on 'Funniest Australian Disasters".
Tracy Stead
Equestrian ServicesNCAS EFA Riding Coach & Equine Trainer
posted by Horse Deals at
2:30 pm
2 Comments:
At least the NSW EFA is allowing registered horses to be vaccinated, my horse is registered with QLD EFA and as far as I am aware they have no such allowance. I applied under the pleasure and performance horses as soon as the applications became available and heard nothing, who is deciding whether my horses are worthy of vaccines? This is a farce and QLD EFA has a lot to answer for, how about coming to the party and vaccinating registered horses! No one will be allowed to compete in the near future unless they have been infected or vaccinated, we should have the option of vaccination in order to compete.
If that is true Tracy, & race horses from Randwick have travelled to Kembla Grange to race, then the DPI will have some serious questions to answer. They had the hide to come on TV last Friday night to refute my point that they pander to the racing industry, what a load of rubbish. Earlier last week I called two seperate DPI departments in charge of horse movements & permits and was told point blank that those movemnets would never be allowed at this stage, & that they were obviously bad rumours. They said that had that been the case then horses such as my own would be able to get a permit to come from his purple zone home to his new home here in the Amber zone. There appears to be a "definite boys club" within the DPI and the phone staff that deal with our calls are just mushrooms. One of the people I spoke to told me they would definitely look into it & get back to me.... still waiting for an explaination.
Its time all horse owners start to demand answers from this government department, not sit back and take it all meekly because they are just laughing at YOU. We didn't bring this virus to our shores, we weren't negligent in letting this in. We don't have the money to pay to vaccinate our horses & chip them for the priviledge to compete again. If one horse was vaccinated at NO COST to the owner then every other horse owner in the country is entitled to the same treatment. Don't accept anything less, stand up for our rights.
I'm sure the TV would have a field day with this story
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