Call for 1% betting levy to help racehorse retirement

Australia’s Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses is calling for a 1 per centum betting levy to ameliorate retirement options for thoroughbred racehorses.

The grouping says the fate of thoroughbreds later their racing career is 1 of the biggest brute welfare number facing the Australian racing industry.

The coalition has submitted a proposal to the Australian racing manufacture calling on it to purpose 1 per centum of all betting turnover to institute a retirement innovation for horses.

Alongside it, the proposal calls for other measures, such every bit a reduction inwards breeding, to stalk the number of wastage, as well as inwards the long-term to terminate the slaughter of thoroughbreds.

The levy would consequence inwards $A143 1 thou m annually beingness given dorsum to racehorses, it says.

It believes such a mensurate could convey to an terminate the slaughter of thoroughbreds.

The coalition says a reduction inwards breeding, alongside stallion breeding caps as well as improved stallion as well as broodmare selection, would live on business office of the strategy.

It every bit good wants a 1 per centum levy on prize coin as well as a foal registration levy to trim down what it calls indiscriminate breeding.

The industry, it says, could innovate a re-homing incentive system to encourage electrical flow owners as well as trainers to re-home their horses.

Initiatives could live on introduced to increase the popularity of thoroughbreds later their racing lives.

It every bit good proposed an immediate $A10 1 thou m injection into existing racehorse re-homing organisations to increase their electrical flow capacities.

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