NO SHOW SYDNEY
It comes to my notice that competition horses, not racehorses, in Victoria are still making the brunt of the sacrifices to protect our state from EI. Read the Sydney Show press release, horses either have to be vaccinated or have a blood test to prove their immunity, and be micro chipped to compete. Where does this leave Victorian horses, when the DPI and the racing authorities have snaffled all available vaccine and are not permitting competition horses to be done?? What other shows north of the border are going to follow suite, and how many years will this be enforced?? I have it in writing from Minister Joe Helper that 'there currently is NO legislated standstill in Victoria.' Why then, have all the shows in Victoria bowed under pressure and cancelled(except Ian Mouser at Tonimbuk, and the EFA showjumping committee). What laws run the show if the government doesn't? It will probably sound insane, but MAYBE in the long run, we would have been better off to have got EI!! Most would have then been vaccinated, certainly the race horses would have remained un effected!, and we would be soon getting on with our life again. If only we had a crystal ball?
JANE( ex Victorian Showie)
JANE( ex Victorian Showie)
posted by Horse Deals at
7:39 am
2 Comments:
Vic show horses aren't the only affected ones. Only the horses in the red/red buffer & purple zones will have been lucky enough to receive the free vaccines. All the rest of us in the original amber & green zones have received squat, so we're in the same boat as you. It's a load of crap, EVERY HORSE should be offered vaccination at the Governments expense - their negligence let this virus into the country in the first place, then we wouldn't need to prove immunity etc (more expense to us).
I am also in a Green zone and we have done all we can to keep people off our property in the hope of not getting EI. Since reading the conditions for the sydney show, re all horses to be vaccinated, I have said that it would have been better to let us get it that way we would have got the vaccine or had EI.
I know that sounds bad, but what should we do?????????????
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