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Thursday 1 November 2007

Interstate Horses Banned From WA Summer Carnival

From the www.breedingracing.com Website

Western Australia's Department Of Agriculture has aborted plans for 2 quarantine centres (at Belmont & Toodyay) proposed to facilitate the participation of interstate horses at the Perth summer carnival. Perth Racing chief executive Alasdair Robertson confirmed the plan has been dropped after threats from local pony club members (opposing the centres) to walk their horses within the required exclusion zones. (Nov 1)

GOOD ON THE PONY CLUBBERS!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey one for the non horse racing side of the EI debarkle
Good on the Pony Clubbers at least they have had the guts to stand up to the DPI/race horse industry

1 November 2007 at 11:29 am  

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