Published: October 27, 2019
Racing authority launches $25m equine welfare initiative, but believes NSW-style ban ‘will drive the problem underground’
Racing Victoria says that banning trainers and owners from sending racehorses to slaughter will not be part of its new $25m equine welfare initiative because it “does not solve the problem”.
Announcing an expanded horse retirement and retraining program on Monday, the Racing Victoria chairman, Brian Kruger, said that placing an outright ban on the sale of horses to abattoirs, knackeries or livestock sales – as is the law in New South Wales – “will drive the problem underground and will not solve the problem”.
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