Cummings lashes out at EI restraints

THE continued strangulation of thoroughbred racing will be discussed at a meeting of Racing NSW officials and Department of Primary Industries delegates in Sydney today.

Anthony Cummings, president of the NSW arm of the Australian Trainers' Association, is set to attend, with the equine influenza ban on the movement of horses the topic for discussion.

"The industry is once again held to ransom by inadequacies at the DPI," Cummings said yesterday. "We will be trying to work out a way forward that makes sense. What is happening now flies in the face of logic.

"Right now there are horses in the paddock that should be coming into stables but they cannot be moved. The DPI is about to go on holidays, there will be no tests carried out."

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