Trainers should be held accountable!!

Hi Guys

So I was in partnership with a 6 time winner in KZN. We decided to move her to JHB as most the lease owners wanted to watch her run and we though she could win some black type. Her form was good in KZN. Once moved to the highveld she lost her form and we thought ok well maybe not a great move to send her up here. After couple more runs she had not been in the money for 7 starts in JHB. Trainer told us that she has lost her zest for racing. So we decided to retire her and send her back to the farm where see came from so she could breed. Low and behold when she arrived she came back a shadow of the horse she once was as 6x winner. Look at the difference between the two pics. Under fed, coming off drugs or stomach ulcers, I'm not sure I'm not a trainer nor a vet but I am horse owner and to see the horse who gave me great joy and pleasure turn out this way is shocking to say the least. The farm is trying everything to get healthy again and have to commend there efforts. I understand horses loose weight when traveling but not like this. Nothing positive about this. Trainers should be held accountable!!

no name no shame

Fecking disgusting if true

Report to NHRA

thats golden mirabilis ..

This is one time the Nhra should get involved.
This horse did not get like this overnight
Something seriously wrong with the trainer
What does he say?

pirates wrote: thats golden mirabilis ..

i googled the horse and now know who the two trainers who trained the horse are

Are you 100% Correct - Then Name and Shame the only way to rid this abuse.

We prefer to get both sides of a story or even 3?

I have double checked and sent a PM to CNC - If we agree Bob should we post it.

The problem we have is that the NHRA will not do anything unless a case is opened . If the owner does not want to open the case well then I will do it with the permission of ABC

Woode-Moore-Manor stud have posted the same on their Facebook

Shocking to think that this horse actually ran on the xxth of Jan 2017 - Six weeks later looks like this .

Bob Brogan wrote: Woode-Moore-Manor stud have posted the same on their Facebook

Never In Our Wildest Dreams...
Did we ever believe that this to be the deplorable condition of one of our Leased race horses, who returned to our Stud, after her initial 6 x winning racing career came to an end a month ago ~
So annoyed by this matter and the dire situation, our Owners will be calling upon the NHRA to make some sweeping changes, holding Trainers more accountable and liable for damage claims.
This brings us to another interesting article called :-
"Let’s Discuss: what happens to racehorses after retirement".
The below article was published by John Thier on Jun 1, 2010

"Our weekly Tuesday discussion topic continues today with one of the most important issues facing the horse world. Full disclosure, this topic is not a happy one but it is a life and death matter for all too many horses.
Nobody in the equestrian media wants to write about it, but Lauren Mullane of the Washington Post recently published an article titled 'Beasts of Burden' – What happen to thoroughbred racehorses after retirement. Lauren describes that a lot of horses are born for racing each year, but most of them don’t have successful racing careers so some owners try to get rid of unsuccessful horses any way possible. As the article describes, the issue of what to do with unwanted horses extends well beyond thoroughbred racing.
Some statistics from the article:
⁠-35,000 thoroughbreds are foaled in North America each year, 68% for racing
⁠-Only 0.2% of those will win a Grade I race
⁠-Most racehorses are retired before age 6
⁠-2/3 of thoroughbreds coming off the track are either euthanized, abandoned, or slaughtered
⁠-The USDA estimates that 90,000 horses were exported to Canada or Mexico last year for slaughter
What is the best way to improve the unwanted horse crisis?"
It is precisely for the above reason, our Owners feel so strongly about the fate post racing, that we end up bringing all our retired horses back to their place of birth at WMM.