Were not off and Racing!!!!!

I have read alot of blogs from unhappy pleasure horse owners.

I think the media has led a lot of you in the wrong direction. We are race horse trainers in country NSW and have had race meetings going on all over the place around us. We have 16 horses ready to race including babies that are reday to Trial. As we do not have enough yards for all the horses they have had to stay in work.

Most of these horses were in work before the EI broke out meaning many of them are due for spelling.

We have not been given any permits even after applying to move some of them back to their owners property which are within 5km of the race track.

We have not been given any special treatment, even though our horses have not had EI.

We have been in lock down since the 24th of August like the rest of you.
The racing industry is the 2nd highest employment industry in Australia 1st is Hospitality.

If the racing industry completely shut down for good you would all be complaining that they left 1000's of people out of work.

I know the cost of owning and competing a pleasure is expensive and plenty of people are worried that soon the show and pleasure world will be for the rich only like in Europe. But if you havn't already noticed it is a rich ladies sport here already.

I also think that the blame should be put were the problem originated. The quarrantine station.

What if it was Rabies that came in off a dog or foot in mouth. Then maybe the blame would be put were it should have been put, forget about the horses why is quarrantine so lapse when they are well aware that diseases like this are carried on farrier equipment and by humans..... Read some of the articles in the papers that have vividly explained the braking of bio security measures at eastern creek for the last 10 years, oh that was until the 25th of August when it was too late.........
TS