CHIEF VET OF NSW RACING QUITS – SITES FAILURE OF ORGANISATION TO INVESTIGAGE CLUSTER OF HORSE FATALITIES
There are some who advocate for improvements or even the banning of horse racing who do not feel sorry for jockeys because they freely choose to race — and horses do NOT have a choice, they are forced to race. BUT we DO feel bad for jockeys because any injury or loss of life is tragic.
The mother of Marina Morel, an apprentice jockey crushed to death in a horrific fall at a country NSW racecourse, has called for a public inquest to determine whether more could have been done to prevent the fatal accident.
Maria Morel’s plea for a full investigation into the circumstances of her daughter’s death comes after the chief vet of Racing NSW quit his job following what he says was the organisation’s failure to fully investigate concerns he raised about a cluster of horse fatalities at the stable where Morel worked.
Morel, a young French woman warmly embraced by the Central Tablelands communities of Mudgee and Gulgong where she rode for local trainer Brett Thompson, was critically injured on the morning of February 8, 2022, when the mare she was riding, Lina’s Choice, collapsed as it was galloping past the winning post at the Gulgong racecourse.
Witnesses to the accident said Morel was pinned beneath the panicked horse, which had shattered a bone in its left front leg and could not regain its feet.
With no vet or paramedics in attendance, trainer Thompson and one of his sons worked frantically to drag the horse off Morel and resuscitate her. She was flown to Sydney’s Westmead Hospital and pronounced dead four days later, after her distraught mother arrived from France to be at her 30-year-old daughter’s side.
August 2019:
Australian horse racing industry figures show 20 jockeys have been killed in the country since 2000, 17 of them during races and three during track work. In February, a Victoria state trainer died, also after falling from a horse during a training run.
We spend a great deal of time and energy educating racing fans that when they bet, either on or off the track or support racing in any way, they contribute to the death of horses. Deaths on the track and even those horses who never make it to the track die too.
AND if they don’t die on the track, or during their racing career, there is a high probability that they will end up on a truck and shipped to be slaughtered for human consumption.
The racing industry has a word for their discards, they use the word “wastage“. Yes, really. The gorgeous horses they claim to love and respect are referred to as wastage when they are no longer wanted or needed.
Having said that, horses are not the only ones who suffer horrendous life-altering injuries or death — jockeys are killed too.
AND then you have those like horse trainer Gai Waterhouse - see video below - who states "Accidents happen in any sport".
MOHM: The difference when it comes to horse racing is that horses do not have a choice. Human athletes have a choice as to whether to train and compete, horses do NOT.
She seems to think that "People have become so weak and prissy now a days".
Well if it is "weak and prissy" to care about horses AND jockeys then we freely admit that we are "weak and prissy".
#MOHM NEEDS YOUR HELP!
We’ve been threatened by those in the horse racing industry and those who benefit from horse slaughter more times than we can count.
But we are not going away.
We are going to persist until horse slaughter no longer exists for any purpose within Australia -- and until the horse racing industry makes drastic changes.
We are going to continue our hands-on work to offer lifelong sanctuary to as many horses as possible. We generally have 20 at just one of our locations - at any given time.
We have the acreage to take on more horses as financial support allows.
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