Echuca horse sales

How the hell does a G3 winner end up at the knackers! The horse picked up $379K for connections but doesn't deserve to be looked after for te rest of it's life apparently.

Maybe the connections gave him to a living forever home, once a horse finishes racing it is near impossible to track where horses end up. Maybe this needs to change, but obviously it is going to be very hard to keep track.

Good to hear that he has been saved

Following the story on FB, they were trying to get hold of the owners, theY did make contact with his strapper who has offered to look after him in QLD.

Glad to hear that Joh

Lovely to hear.

PS.  Hope Lauren and family take their other horses away from this place .

Naming & shaming has been found to be counter productive to potential 'saves', so I'm advised.
As it stands, at least 3 well known, big Vic. stables dispose of their 'culls' via the back door i.e. bypass the sales yards on the way to their demise.
No doubt the rest of the country operates similarly it's just that those working to help @ Echuca are transparent & social media active.
TBs in kill pens are not a good look but I know RV are working hard in the background

Don't know for sure AA but I'm guessing there's not a snowflake's chance of the rest of their horses remaining on that place but they'd need to have made arrangements about where their youngsters would be going, then arrive at the same time as the transport, settle their account, load the horses and then and only then say whatever they want to say and get the heck out of there.

I suspect that is why the name of the agistment farm hasn't been mentioned .. lots of things could go wrong ie. "paddock accidents" if they knew what was about to hit their fan.

Hope I'm wrong, but that'd be my take on it.

Given that some of the family of the original owners have been in the industry 40 years I imagine there's quite a few places that they could arrange for the other horses to go.

These people must be sad and greedy individuals.

Trainer Pearson - Bendigo

PERSIAN MIST 5yo Bay Mare D.O.B: 28-Aug-2010 by HARD SPUN (USA)  from MYSTERIOUS RANSOM 5x Pedigree Report

Status	Retired
Owner’s Details at retirement (when Racing Australia is advised)	Mr J D Pearson, Mr A G Williams

Gay3 wrote: Sherel Mckinlay-Money She is rugged fed and warm (was shivering in the pens) in her stable tonight as is her mate from pen 88 Feelaway, Joanne Kilbourne I spoke to their trainer today. Had nice words about both. Sherel Mckinlay-Money Thats great, they are both getting a rest, then hopefully we will show her, and wait for him to mature, both are gorgeous 2 very lucky ones I think much of the problem is that vendors just don't realise there are so few non meat buyers & assume they'll be safe. Unfortunately it isn't the case as I understand about 80% go to dealers or doggers.

BlackKnight wrote: Gay3 wrote: Sherel Mckinlay-Money She is rugged fed and warm (was shivering in the pens) in her stable tonight as is her mate from pen 88 Feelaway, Joanne Kilbourne I spoke to their trainer today. Had nice words about both. Sherel Mckinlay-Money Thats great, they are both getting a rest, then hopefully we will show her, and wait for him to mature, both are gorgeous 2 very lucky ones I think much of the problem is that vendors just don't realise there are so few non meat buyers & assume they'll be safe. Unfortunately it isn't the case as I understand about 80% go to dealers or doggers. Suspect the trainer referred to here is Williams (the co-owner of Persian Mist who appears to be the trainer of Feelaway) rather than Pearson (the trainer of Persian Mist who doesn't seem to have any involvement in Feelaway).

So the Hemmingway was rehomed as well?