The sad nature of my maths skills has been devastatingly exposed earlier in this blog. The readers' poll which has run on the blog for the last week mercifully works out the percentages for me. Of those of you who cast a vote - and it was a small sample so you tell me if it is 'statistically relevant' - 63% said surgery of any kind should be compulsorily notifiable at yearling sales. 23% (or 9 voters) said R.equi should be. EI got 10% of the votes.
At Keeneland, declaration of conformation surgeries is voluntary. However with animals going through the ring two years of age or younger, it's compulsory to lodge a certificate in the repository if the horse has had any invasive joint surgery, surgery to the upper respiratory tract, or any abdominal surgery except to repair a ruptured bladder in a newborn foal. This is over and above warranties/announcements regarding windsuckers, rigs, wobblers, eyes, wind and steroids.
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Thousand Guineas Prelude winner Ortensia, trainer Tony Noonan. Love those nostrils and ears (the filly's).
Fastnet Rock/Rare Insight 2YO colt. Tr J O'Shea
Danzero/Global Dance 2YO colt. Tr G Waterhouse
Canadian 2YO stakeswinner and young broodmare Chelsey's Image (Holy Bull-Lucky Chelsey), in foal to Dylan Thomas (Ire)
Golan/Double Owe 2YO colt, named Double Whisky. Tr C Waller
Redoute's Choice/Volted In 2YO filly. Tr G Waterhouse
Hussonet/Portrayal 2YO filly, named Bolocco Miss. Tr C Waller
Anabaa/Regal Fun 2YO colt. Tr C Waller.
High Chaparral, sire of the Kaapentyne 2YO colt. Tr C Little.
More Than Ready/Rachael's Pride 2YO colt, named Our Corsa. Tr C Waller
Charge Forward/Zerlina 2YO filly, named Passing By. Tr Robert Price
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USA stakeswinner and young broodmare Les Ry Leigh (Broken Vow-Azusa), in foal to Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire)
Hussonet's G1 winning 2YO champion filly La Chiflota
Group winner Rockwood (Rock Of Gibraltar-Foxwood, by Centaine). Tr G Waterhouse
Gr 1 winning mare Absolut Glam (Snowland-Pine Away, by Pine Bluff). Tr D O'Brien.
8 comments:
The coming of Equine Influenza has been a major watershed in Australia, because it has remined us that nothing is quite what it seems in the thoroughbred industry.
What we thought was quarantine clearly WASN'T quarantine, for a start. And what we innocently believed were government decisions being made for the good of the entire Australian horse industry were, more than often, decisions carefully engineered to benefit the big breeders in the Hunter Valley.
So pehaps the rest of us are entitled to ask - what else isn't necessarily so in this industry?
Think about it. We attend sales never knowing who actually owns the horses being offered for sale. And when they are sold by another farm, we don't even have a clue where they were born or raised.
Furthermore, we are also expected to be happy to buy them not knowing what surgeries of major illnesses they have had in their short lives. And that's just the start of the list.
While the real beneficiaries of the sales business are the auction house and the breeders, it is time they were reminded that, without the buyer, there is no industry.
As the Australian economy begins to steadily tighten up in 2008 and the easy dollar begins to evaporate, it is time that some form of transparency - and buyer confidence - was returned to this industry.
If you read the terms and conditions in Australian yearling catalogues you will see that invasive joint surgery,abdominal surgery, throat surgery,wobblers,rigs and roarers have to be declared otherwise they can be returned to the vendor within seven days
Disagree. I have the Magic Millions catalogue for February and can find no reference in the Conditions of Sale to invasive joint surgery, throat surgery or abdominal surgery (or steroids). Also if a horse is represented as a colt but it turns out to be a rig you have no comeback. It must be stressed that all buyers must make relevant inspections and enquiries before bidding but there are still some important conditions/histories which can remain unannounced. The difference at Keeneland is that it's compulsory to lodge a certificate in the respository so it becomes a simple matter to check the status of each lot you're interested in.
I looked at the 2007 Easter Yearling Sale catalogue, under vendor's warranties for my info. Isn't it interesting that M.M.don't have the same conditions?
I think it's regrettable that there isn't uniformity.
The declaration for invasive surgery appears to be easy and uncomplicated but in fact it is a mine field. I am in favour of a sensible declaration policy but when a simple procedure such as lancing an abscess or cutting a hematoma or any other simple procedure that a young horse has during its early years is required to be notified it then becomes a ridiculous erroneous task that small vendors will never comply with.
I say be very careful that the net is not too small as it usually is in this industry
Do you reckon lancing an abscess or cutting a haematoma would be regarded as invasive surgery? I doubt anyone has these basically routine external procedures in mind when seeking an assurance on invasive surgery. Colic surgery and any other intervention involving internal organs are surely what's relevant.
No problem with your thoughts and ideas.
But frome a endor
Don't forget the vendor may have been given a horse to prepare for the sale and knows as much as you in relation to surgery and steriods what a owner does prior to going to a vendor is tricky and the vendor is relying on the owner for that information.
So we all in some way are in the same boat.
The vendor who gives the steriods is a big worry.
To me anyone who operates on a horse is trying to help the horse. For what ever reason it may be
Its the deliberate use of substance that blows me away.
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