COMPULSORY REPORTING OF MAJOR FRACTURES, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND APPROVAL OF AFFECTED HORSES TO RETURN TO RACING This policy is intended to help identify and manage racehorses that sustain major fractures or undergo major orthopaedic surgery and manage their return to training, galloping, trialling, and racing. Where a horse has sustained a major fracture and/or undergone […]
We Are All Just Animals
Have a look at the final stages of the 1995 Inter Dominion Grand Final, and keep your eyes on Chris Alford in the green colours on Golden Reign. Unbelievable it is. In the modern age he would have been disqualified for sure. The whip use would have been enough. But what about the right foot […]
Is It Better to Live and Suffer, or To Die? – No-one Asked the Little Chestnut Mare Before They Shot Her in the Head
I got a philosophical question to ask, and although its a deep one its pertinent. Is it better to live bad or die? I’ve seen my Mum and Dad live bad after cancer fucked them up, and I’ve seen them die. They both the latter reluctantly, when they could have done it easy a long […]
The Death of Two Slow Dogs – Killed Because They Couldn’t Earn Money For Their Owners Anymore
Cash Manager wasn’t injured at all, it was just very slow dog. It hadn’t won or even run a place for almost a year, and the minimal appearance money it had collected weren’t enough to pay for its feed. So after it ran last twice in row in very slow times, the greyhound’s trainer Rhonda Essery […]
QLD Greyhound Racing Participant Warned Off
Queensland greyhound racing participant Barry Taylor (who is not the Townsville lawyer Barry Taylor who owned the Group 1 winning galloper Merchant Navy) has been warned off for failing to front a Stewards inquiry. The Stewards called the inquiry in an attempt to ascertain the current status – i.e. whether they are still breathing – […]
Cool It!
It was 28 degrees on Sunday afternoon at the Sunshine Coast. That wasn’t hot enough for the QRIC’s extreme heat policy to be employed. Which was a shame, because two runners in the first two race on the program were diagnosed with heat stress after they had raced, He’s Got Grunt in the first and […]
QLD Racing Review Reforms – Animal Welfare
TRACEABILITY A nation-leading lifetime traceability framework will be developed, beginning with the greyhound code and progressing to equine codes. This critical system will incorporate a digital passport that tracks animals from naming through every stage to end of life. Comment Long overdue. Mark = A + REHOMING A new Greyhound Retirement Program will be introduced, […]
Four Dead Greyhounds in Just Ten Days – QLD Sure is a Dangerous Damn Place For Dogs
It has been a bad couple of weeks for greyhounds in QLD. A fortnight ago at the Q2 a greyhound named Boston Rocks was severely checked on the fist turn and fell. It suffered a catastrophic near side front leg injury and was given the magic green needle to put it out of its pain. […]
A Whole Lot of NSW Greyhound Trainers Get Warned Off For Making Their Dogs Disappear Into Thin Air – or Shallow Graves
The NSW Greyhound Welfare Integrity Commission is taking a hard line against trainer who make their dogs disappear without trace into thin air, and quite rightly too because we all know where dogs that disappear go, and it ain’t any place where they are still barking or breathing, and that is no good at all. […]
It’s the Weak Nags in SEQ That Can’t Handle the Heat DC Kelly, Not Those Up Here in the North – Never Fear Though Sir, CRAHP Chairman Cranitch Has a Cool Solution to the Heat Stress Conundrum – Start All City Race Meetings at 3:00AM
CRAHP President Cranitch (pictured): A Red Hot Racing Fan With a Cool Solution to the Heat Stress Conundrum Deputy QRIC Commissioner Kim Kelly has been courting controversy in QLD country racing circles recently over the well-intended application of his new Caring For Animals in Extreme Heat Policy that was developed using the classic consultation method […]