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Monday 17 December 2007

NO JOKE

Its a joke, but all of us are not laughing!! The Inglis Sales TB yearlings are now doing 3 days quarantine before entering Victoria, and 3 days at the Inglis complex at Oaklands Vic, Yet will the DPI let competition horses compete at Sydney Royal? Oh yes, but do 2 weeks quarantine before and 2 weeks after!!!!, and as long as the horses have been vaccinated, or been cleared of EI, and microchiped. So that cuts out the rest of the states of Australia. We all have reeled from the impact of the virus, not just the states it was in. We need leaders who think outside the circle!!

Once again, breeding money rules, and the rulers name starts with Mr M.........? Come on DPI, get some balls. Ask Bruce Hill or Kelly Lees or all the others from Victoria who have been stranded in the green zone of NSW since day one how they feel with this news of the yearlings coming into Victoria??? Ask them how they felt when they were told it was going to cost $4,000 each horse to eventually bring them home.?? How many owners in the purple zone have been contacted recently to ask if their horses need to be vaccinated? Regardless if they have had EI or not? Tell me Victorian DPI, how are horses going to perform in other zones if you refuse to vaccinate this group of horses??.

Obviously coming back into Victoria is not an issue following the yearlings for the TB Sales. Cameron Bell of the Victorian DPI told me last week that they had allocated 2,000 vaccines to performance horses for this purpose, yet I am told by the EFA National High Performance manager that he had problems getting my Olympic Squad horse vaccinated in Victoria, when all the others in Australia had been done, because Victoria DPI was with the belief that they were not going to allow vaccination. Hello DPI, what have you done to all the TB's around the country???????

Getting out of bed in the morning and creating new rules for the day seems to be the agenda for the DPI. We may get a Christmas present( Cindy M), and it may be the best thing to happen. We would then get it over and get on with our lives.

Sarah Allen (Victoria)

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