Caring for our racehorses from start to finish is key
NEW and improved ways to track the lives of horses in Britain after leaving racing are in the pipeline.
The racing industry is developing a system to log what happens to each horse on leaving training, simplifying paperwork and creating a rule to ensure accurate information is collected. This work is headed by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and Retraining of Racehorses (RoR).
A TV documentary raising allegations of the scale of equine wastage in Australia that showed shocking scenes of treatment of horses in slaughterhouses made international headlines. But the alleged situation is extremely different to and in no way representative
