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Have you now noticed the testing being carried out in Victoria for EI?
I feel we need to put in place a database and set up help for the people who need it desperately.
With stud owners that are financially burdened I feel that we could setup a sponsorship system with either the general public or other horse people who have not been finacially burdened where-is a sponsor is given the opportunity to financially support a horse(Mare and/or foal) EG: $X per week to maintain that horse on the property where it is and when EI has been brought under control and we are able to move normally again that mare becomes the property of that sponsor and the stud owner could maybe retain a % of the mare enabling a foal every 3-4 years from the mare. I personally do not want to see Australias performance foundation stock lost. All would be negotiated and sealed with a written contract.
This would immediatley ease the burden of the broodmares. Although I also see this with other performance horses too. Maybe this could be the start of a syndication programe to help Australia retain its strong field of performance horses as we know and the rest of the world does too.
In reply to the girl who thought some of the equestrian fraternity were spoil sports, you must understand that a lot of people are EXTREMELY hurting right now. There are people out there who are receiving nothing for the horses they love. They are distressed over seeing their horses go through the dreaded EI virus and losing their precious stock.. You are not soley affected as you have your business split over two sides of the industry and so therefore have the fortunate opportunity to go forward with the racing side and continue in your work.
We too in the sporthorse, performance and leisure industry wish to return to work and realistically I personally applaud the racehorse industry for their quick damage control procedures but it is a slightly bit DISCRIMITIVE that the DPI allows vaccination of racehorses (Not Negotiable) but not of any other. Did you put your horses down as EFA registered horses when the syringe came around or were they racehorses again? You see we just want to go back to doing what we do best!
Also I should say that myself and 11 other equine industry workers had a phone conference with the shadow minister Kerry O'Brien
My letter,
Hon Ian Macdonald MLC, NSW Minister for Primary Industries.
Thank you for your reply. It is very appreciated.
Yes I am in the Amber Zone I agree but I am without work at this stage as I am a professional within the industry. We need Hon Ian Macdonald MLC, NSW Minister for Primary Industries, to understand that there are many people like me and we are many. The problem is the fact that if this opinion of not allowing all consenting horse owners to vaccinate continues, we will not have the strong industry we have had and there will be many people who have become unemployed, lost all that they have spent their lives obtaining and even depression and suicide may become options.
We will have horses that were worth $100,000 only worth $50,000 to $75,000, we will have a glut of unwanted horses that will be sent to horse sales all over the state at the end of this nightmare fetching between $50 to $150 in a bid to regain what they can. People within the sporthorse industry have spent relentless hours and finances to climb the ladder of fame only to have walk into the paddock to decide if it is financially more viable to feed or the price of a bullet.
Horses will and have already greatly diminished in price right across the board. Our competitions are a place where we can show the worth of our horses and like racehorses, the more they win the more they are worth, with some of our top performance horses being sold for well over the $1Million mark.
Maybe you could answer this question for me please? Does the racehorse industry go under a different DPI as I hear with racehorses it is now "Not Negotiable" about the EI vaccine, All racehorses must be vaccinated! Why is it legal/mandatory for a racehorse to be vaccinated and yet we as sporthorse, performance and leisure horse owners who wish for our horses to be vaccinated, so we too can return to work and compete, are not allowed to or illegal.
The racing industry has obviously placed a strategic plan of action into place so as an episode as this will not disturb the racing industry to this proportion again if and when EI returns and I applaud them for their damage control.
Please explain this discriminative naturein which the vaccination is being used?
And please I would dearly wish for you representing us the hardworking battling Australians and the DPI and its strategies, explain to us why there is a discrimination between racehorses and the rest of the horse population.
You can't be that naive to not realise that we are the RECYCLERS for the racing industry and we should be on the top of the list for doing so. Many a time I have bought racehorses that were sold as yearlings for $1 - $2 - $3 hundred thousand to be sold onto to me for $500!
Our industry is suffering enormously and we need for you to listen to us. You need to get us back to work not allow us to become part of the deliberating statistics that are happening here in our LUCKY country. Now with this latest mortgage hike I can only imagine the further heartache that has been placed upon the equine community. The money that has been granted for our emergency situation has been greatly accepted but has been a long time coming, and unfortunately although the racing industry is slowly getting back on track, the rest of us are still at ground Zero so much more must be widely distributed and continuously if you want us NOT to become a statistic.
Please you must not be responsible for the demise of the of the equine sporthorse, performance and leisure multi-million dollar industry.
It maybe well into 2008 maybe closer to 2009 that we would return to as we know it without the enormous drive we had due to fact that most of us will be broken, financially and/or emotionally.
Yours sincerely
Tracy Stead Equestrian Services
NCAS EFA Riding Coach & Equine Trainer
I feel we need to put in place a database and set up help for the people who need it desperately.
With stud owners that are financially burdened I feel that we could setup a sponsorship system with either the general public or other horse people who have not been finacially burdened where-is a sponsor is given the opportunity to financially support a horse(Mare and/or foal) EG: $X per week to maintain that horse on the property where it is and when EI has been brought under control and we are able to move normally again that mare becomes the property of that sponsor and the stud owner could maybe retain a % of the mare enabling a foal every 3-4 years from the mare. I personally do not want to see Australias performance foundation stock lost. All would be negotiated and sealed with a written contract.
This would immediatley ease the burden of the broodmares. Although I also see this with other performance horses too. Maybe this could be the start of a syndication programe to help Australia retain its strong field of performance horses as we know and the rest of the world does too.
In reply to the girl who thought some of the equestrian fraternity were spoil sports, you must understand that a lot of people are EXTREMELY hurting right now. There are people out there who are receiving nothing for the horses they love. They are distressed over seeing their horses go through the dreaded EI virus and losing their precious stock.. You are not soley affected as you have your business split over two sides of the industry and so therefore have the fortunate opportunity to go forward with the racing side and continue in your work.
We too in the sporthorse, performance and leisure industry wish to return to work and realistically I personally applaud the racehorse industry for their quick damage control procedures but it is a slightly bit DISCRIMITIVE that the DPI allows vaccination of racehorses (Not Negotiable) but not of any other. Did you put your horses down as EFA registered horses when the syringe came around or were they racehorses again? You see we just want to go back to doing what we do best!
Also I should say that myself and 11 other equine industry workers had a phone conference with the shadow minister Kerry O'Brien
My letter,
Hon Ian Macdonald MLC, NSW Minister for Primary Industries.
Thank you for your reply. It is very appreciated.
Yes I am in the Amber Zone I agree but I am without work at this stage as I am a professional within the industry. We need Hon Ian Macdonald MLC, NSW Minister for Primary Industries, to understand that there are many people like me and we are many. The problem is the fact that if this opinion of not allowing all consenting horse owners to vaccinate continues, we will not have the strong industry we have had and there will be many people who have become unemployed, lost all that they have spent their lives obtaining and even depression and suicide may become options.
We will have horses that were worth $100,000 only worth $50,000 to $75,000, we will have a glut of unwanted horses that will be sent to horse sales all over the state at the end of this nightmare fetching between $50 to $150 in a bid to regain what they can. People within the sporthorse industry have spent relentless hours and finances to climb the ladder of fame only to have walk into the paddock to decide if it is financially more viable to feed or the price of a bullet.
Horses will and have already greatly diminished in price right across the board. Our competitions are a place where we can show the worth of our horses and like racehorses, the more they win the more they are worth, with some of our top performance horses being sold for well over the $1Million mark.
Maybe you could answer this question for me please? Does the racehorse industry go under a different DPI as I hear with racehorses it is now "Not Negotiable" about the EI vaccine, All racehorses must be vaccinated! Why is it legal/mandatory for a racehorse to be vaccinated and yet we as sporthorse, performance and leisure horse owners who wish for our horses to be vaccinated, so we too can return to work and compete, are not allowed to or illegal.
The racing industry has obviously placed a strategic plan of action into place so as an episode as this will not disturb the racing industry to this proportion again if and when EI returns and I applaud them for their damage control.
Please explain this discriminative naturein which the vaccination is being used?
And please I would dearly wish for you representing us the hardworking battling Australians and the DPI and its strategies, explain to us why there is a discrimination between racehorses and the rest of the horse population.
You can't be that naive to not realise that we are the RECYCLERS for the racing industry and we should be on the top of the list for doing so. Many a time I have bought racehorses that were sold as yearlings for $1 - $2 - $3 hundred thousand to be sold onto to me for $500!
Our industry is suffering enormously and we need for you to listen to us. You need to get us back to work not allow us to become part of the deliberating statistics that are happening here in our LUCKY country. Now with this latest mortgage hike I can only imagine the further heartache that has been placed upon the equine community. The money that has been granted for our emergency situation has been greatly accepted but has been a long time coming, and unfortunately although the racing industry is slowly getting back on track, the rest of us are still at ground Zero so much more must be widely distributed and continuously if you want us NOT to become a statistic.
Please you must not be responsible for the demise of the of the equine sporthorse, performance and leisure multi-million dollar industry.
It maybe well into 2008 maybe closer to 2009 that we would return to as we know it without the enormous drive we had due to fact that most of us will be broken, financially and/or emotionally.
Yours sincerely
Tracy Stead Equestrian Services
NCAS EFA Riding Coach & Equine Trainer
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