Dogs finished - This is their final season

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I used to know a lot of good people in the industry way back who used to just walk the dogs and train them at the track. Then we're just families who the dogs lived with in the backyard. But the bad eggs ruined it. But this bloke doesn't mind heavily regulating other industries or green lighting the dodgiest of all like casinos when, and with whom it's suits. So maybe there's something in the Wentworth park thing.
And wouldn't it be strange if punters were encouraged to gamble at say.......
Barangaroo..

An old mate of mine who passed away 10 years ago used to race greyhounds on the Gold Coast back in the mid-70's. He got banned for doping his dogs and told if he was ever seen in the dog game again he'd 'pay' for it.

Incidentally, he was a dyed in the wool doesn't-matta fan lol.
 
Thoroughbred Horse racing(including the gambling and breeding industry tied to it) is the fourth biggest industry in this country. Careful what you wish for to those who want it banned in this economic climate.

I have owned plenty of racehorses and for every race horse that dies on the track or dodgy trainer there are another 1000 horses treated extremely well in first class surroundings for a large portion of their life by trainers, vets and strappers who genuinely care for them regardless of their success on the track.People would be amazed at the bonds formed between horses and those that look after them.

This idea that most horses are beaten and mistreated to entertain us is bandwagon garbage and so far from the truth it is ridiculous.
 
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Thoroughbred Horse racing(including the gambling and breeding industry tied to it) is the fourth biggest industry in this country. Careful what you wish for to those who want it banned in this economic climate.

I have owned plenty of racehorses and for every race horse that dies on the track or dodgy trainer there are another 1000 horses treated extremely well in first class surroundings for a large portion of their life by trainers, vets and strappers who genuinely care for them regardless of their success on the track.People would be amazed at the bonds formed between horses and those that look after them.

This idea that most horses are beaten and mistreated to entertain us is bandwagon garbage and so far from the truth it is ridiculous.
I agree with you too. I have owned racehorses for over 30 years and the way they are treated would amaze those bandwagon people. You would not work in the industry if you didn't love the horses or have a rapport with them. The bonds that are formed between the horses and the staff/trainers/jockeys are very real and the pride they have for the horses is there for everyone to see.
 
Lazy legislation if I ever saw it. Couldn't be arsed weeding out the bad element so just throw a blanket ban over the lot. Also, do we think this decision was made a few weeks ago but the announcement held until after the federal election???

I'm traditionally a Coalition voter, but the current Baird government has well a truly lost me.
 
Thoroughbred Horse racing(including the gambling and breeding industry tied to it) is the fourth biggest industry in this country. Careful what you wish for to those who want it banned in this economic climate.

I have owned plenty of racehorses and for every race horse that dies on the track or dodgy trainer there are another 1000 horses treated extremely well in first class surroundings for a large portion of their life by trainers, vets and strappers who genuinely care for them regardless of their success on the track.People would be amazed at the bonds formed between horses and those that look after them.

This idea that most horses are beaten and mistreated to entertain us is bandwagon garbage and so far from the truth it is ridiculous.
Don't worry, if the animal libbers get their way we'll have a horse for PM within the next decade anyway.
 
The king and Queen both own race horses so that industry is exempt from any laws.

PS King= Ray Hadley
 
All this is very similar too the argument about exotic performing animals in circuses and the like.
They can be treated well by the owners for many years or released back into their natural habitats, where they will live happily ever after.
Unfortunately it will be spent as an expensive floor rug being gazed at by their heads on a trophy hunters wall.
But the ferals know what's best....
 
Having seen live baiting first hand, dogs with toes tied together with fishing wire, dogs given coke and dogs starving i say good riddance to the dishlickers.
Yeah that's crap to see. But these ars*eholes need not just be punished within the industry but criminally. Baird is just taking an easy out by banning it. Do your fu*cking job and police the thing . The idiot is going to wipe out an entire species of purpose bred dog who are born to chase, not Kill. This f**ckwit is doctor Frankenstein and the frigging monster who thinks he can do what he wants.
The lunatic must be stopped !!!
His ego is completely out of control.
He hasn't thought through what he's created here.
 
I think the biggest problem they had was the sheer volume of dogs that are bred each year and the very low percentage of them that make it to the track. When you consider most dogs throw a litter of multiple pups (probably averages around 5-6) each time they breed it doesn't take long for it to get out of hand in terms of numbers. The other issue they have is that most dog breeding is done by way of artificial insemination, so one stud dog can service multiple bitches in a short period of time. They do cap the number of 'services' each breeding dog is allowed to have but it's not like thoroughbreds where any breeding has to be done by the physical act.

In these modern scientific days there must be a way they could limit each greyhound litter to one or two pups only, rather than the current numbers game where multiple pups are whilttled down to one that might be quick enough to make it on the track and the rest are given the green dream (or worse)
 
I was thinking
The Backsliders song Dark Side of Newtown

You know poverty is spreading, there's an epidemic in Newtown
Chop a load 'baker's wood', with a felling axe,
load it on a donkey dray, with a pile of knickknacks
Make a pound note bet at a dishlicker meet
Watch the coat-tugger lose if its a dead-heat
Chorus
It was a hard hard time, near the store that named a town
It was a hard hard time, on the bad side of Newtown
On the bad side of Newtown
On the bad side of Newtown

http://www.songlyrics.com/backsliders/dark-side-of-newtown-lyrics/#wByYJFez68v2GWdS.99
 

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