Category: Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare South Australia The Gallops

Flogging a Poor Horse to Death – Is Racing a Galloper 22 Times in Just 29 Weeks Really What Animal Welfare is All About?

by : peterprofitracing

At exactly what point does racing a galloper excessively become an animal welfare issue? Can owners and their trainer race an aged thoroughbred week in, week out in races held on professional tracks, and still be said to care for the best interests of their horse? Those are the questions that need to be answered […]

Animal Welfare Integrity Tasmania

The Tassie Stewards Retrospectively Skew the Numbers – The Fix is In – But Chief Steward Shinn Can Fix It – All He Needs to Do is Tell Us Where All the Vanished Ben Yole Barn Horses Have Gone

by : peterprofitracing

Hang on! Yesterday we wrote a story telling you how the Tasracing integrity officials had violated their own animal welfare policy by allowing a Ben Yole trained pacer named Mach Charm to race 6 times in 22 days when the maximum  number of starts allowed in a month is five. What the Tasmanian Steward’s had […]

Animal Welfare Tasmania The Trots

The Dogs, The Dogs – How One Harness Racing Stable in Tasmania Has Found the Final Solution to the Problem of Slow Pacers

by : peterprofitracing

That is black and white isn’t it? Unless the Tasmanian control body determines that running six or more times in a month is beneficial to a pacer’s welfare – which appears highly unlikely to ever be the case – the maximum number of times that a horse can race in any 30 day period is […]

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