It's disgraceful.

I find it a bit surprising that sound if slow race horses are going to the knackery. If it is the case it is yet another indication of the urbanisation of the country.

I have had a few thoroughbreds, a couple of slow young horses, that never made it to the track, & some that had finished their racing days. They were cheep so there was considerable competition for those that looked as if they may be able to jump, or be suitable for dressage or pony club. It was usually only those that were mentally unsuitable for pleasure horses that did not find a home.

I once had a couple of vets put down an old horse that had developed cancer. They did such a dreadful job of lethal injection, that I would never let it happen again, & have found my rifle much more humane.

Queensland is cruel to animals. My little stallion, after 16 years show jumping & eventing, including teaching 2 of my kids first to ride, then show jump, & one to be a pretty good eventer, spent another 12 years as a pet, but finally developed cancer from our Queensland sun. I had to shoot him, & I can still get a bit misty eyed when I pass when we buried him.

Would have thought this thread would take of
Truth is while understanding we do eat meat and will continue to, I know this was and is shameful
We should note the idiots in that slaughter house have helped the farm invaders and extreme animal welfare groups endlessly
City dwellers will not ever know the truth, such killing is every day and will continue
But in defending that nothing short of total training, total policing, and respect for the animals will do
Like Hasbeen the rifle suits me, not this stun thing, not even on religious grounds
The industry needs to shut down this slaughter house or force it to remake its self from the ground up
Some clearly should not be working their this morning

Firstly you can find a good home for a horse with all the promises of taking care of it and loving it everything my daughter always wanted etc etc. Then when they realise how much work it can be its hey ho get rid of it anyway they can. That's reality. You cant pin that on the racing industry. Go work in a stables and see how much love and care goes into keeping a horse.
ANIMAL Actiivists....where do you start maybe take a look at the slaughter of horses camels and other animals running wild in the north of Australia by using helicopters but that's ok that's CULLING injured left to die in pain foals without a mother and so on. But don't want to know about that cant parade done the coffee bar lined streets to make your point. If youre dinkum then then be active the RSPCA is a chocolate teapot useless be happy to procecute someone in suburbia where you don't have to get dirty. Abatoirs are heartless places and its employees have to be heartless to do their jobs but I don't doubt they have pets at home they look after.
Back to the racing industry, every step is taken to find a horse a good home, more homes are found for ex race horses than go to the knackers yard but its impossible keep check on the families they go to. Riding schools take ex race horses what happens to them when they are no longer profitable. Oh and lets not mention sheep or cattle or even roosters that would be outside of an activists concern.

westozzy,

I get your drift. Puppies for Christmas that often end up as unwanted, uncared-for dogs. The virtue signalling in set carefully selecting their animals deserving compassion. It's very hard these days to distinguish genuine concern from pure politics.

I've already decided I'm never going to bet on another horse race again.
Or at least not until the industry can change its ways.
I'm not going to subsidise their industry of 'wastage'.

The horses are the reason for their whole industry;
They couldn't have horse racing without the horses.

I understand that we raise and kill animals for food.
Those animals get to spend their lives out in a paddock eating, before being cut short in their prime.

I think that animals that are bred to perform as a sport for us are in a different category however.
They should be treated with dignity, and not simply valued as pet-mince.

I'm always hesitant about new regulations.
I don't typically support the creation of more rules.
All I want is for people to act with some decency in the first place.

I don't want to see animals treated like that.
I don't want them put to death simply because they did not perform as well as hoped or they outlived their usefulness in sport.
If that's what it is, then all it is, is an industry based on death.

You might as well just attack them with swords in a Colosseum, at least they have some kind of 'sporting' chance.

I don't want to see them killed inhumanely, nor do I want people who willfully inflict cruelty on the animals involved in the process of their demise.

At this point, I'm still angry about what I saw in the report a few days ago, to the point I'd be happy to support shutting the whole thing down.