Echuca horse sales

A few good re-homing pages on Facebook, Gay will probably be able to help more, she has a few good connections

Along with Little Critter
Count Encosta
Go Trish
list goes on - no good

Reference to one D. Archard also below.


Edited by Gay3 - 22 Jul 2016 at 5:36pm

Thanks guys.

Thanks Beliskner for asking about donations and thanks Gay for answering!

I have been thinking for a while that I should donate my (meagre) punting profits to TB rescue. (And surely the good karma will thence increase my profits! )

But am also distrustful of most horse rescue people/groups, especially after some recent controversies.

The Gatekeeper, though, appears to deserve all the help they can get. Love reading about their work (sad as the horses' stories are) and I wouldn't hesitate to donate to them if I can.

Hi Belisker, if you go on facebook to Rescue Horse Foster Homes.  These are a group who chip in every week to save these unwanted horses. They go to a foster home first and get fed up and/ or retrained and when they are ready they are given away on a FREE LEASE.  This way the group can make sure they are not sold on. 

Gatekeeper simply post requests from any who want to buy, lease, sell or giveaway horses, they don't accept or need money nor do they differentiate between ugly, pretty, old or noncommercial.

Their mission as per the FB page:

Run by Lornita Papworth and Kylie Stephenson as Thoroughbred Avocates

The GateKeeper is implemented when Thoroughbreds enter the Saleyard, Dealers, for free ads or Knackeries.
Based on these horses fitting certain Breeding or racing propositions to be rehomed back into the Industry.
The GateKeeper's role is to complete research on breeding or background history to determine suitability. This ensures selected horses have a 2nd chance.
The role of the GateKeeper is not a Rescue Group as potential buyers are in fact Rescuing and utilising the Thoroughbred themselves.
The Gatekeeper on occasions acccepts horses at our own discretion who are personally overseen under the gatekeeper logo and our guidelines
Services provided are not for Profit and put in place for the benefit of the Thoroughbred and the great members within the Industry.

Jayzaa, the trouble with many of those 'rescues' is that their egos cause inflated prices when each tries to outdo the other in bidding duels. The abbatoirs will still fillt their quotas & far better to allow them to take the old & injured ones, than rescues spend a fortune on vets to patch them up so they can spend a few more years in a paddock, to the detriment of healthy & potentially useful youngsters.

Would not be surprised if at some stage in the next few weeks a horse called LEVERACTION turns up here.

12 year old gelding bred by Vella Pty Ltd.

Worst one i heard of was a black-type winner in USA, and i don't think it was a cheap listed win but actually a grade 2 or 3, and had very decent prizemoney aswell.

Well to be fair there aa.  The USA did protest when they found out.  He was sold for stud and failed (not sure if infurtile or what) but the original owners would of bought him back for retirement at one of the champion set ups.  Like France the Japanese have horses on the table like cows and sheep.  

After Ferdinand, wasn't there clauses put into sales contracts of horses to Japan to make sure something like that never happened again?

Specifically, TB Gatekeeper endeavours to identify TBs in the few hours prior to sale & can't do this untill someone arrives to relay brands. They then find out as much as possible about them & post on FB hoping someone will buy the horse at auction the price, usually $400 - $500. In the event of any passing on to an abb. or Depot In Transit, a price of $800 - $1k is then needed which will be the case today for a Not A Single Doubt mare who wasn't id'd in time.
Only TB knowledgeable homes are sought & occasionally, although someone is happy to take the horse, they haven't the ready cash, so others will chip in to get the animal out before it's processed.

Pretty much Beliskner. All about the $$

Forgot to add .  

RV could start with a small, pilot program for 12 months, don't have to invest an arm and a leg in it, just enough to make it competent and productive, not something absurd like an average of 10k per horse helped.

Also, perhaps we need to look into an overall strategy of breeding less thoroughbred horses.

I think people who want to own more then a certain amount of broodmares should be required to obtain some sort of approval or license, and part of this is demonstrating the financial resources to reduce the change of a Bulla-esque situation happening, while i loathe red tape and bureaucracies, i think some sort of strategy needs to be put in place, we breed too many thoroughbred horses.

Also another idea, create some sort of public agreement for the big time owners with several dozen horses, who all commit that they will NOT sell any horse directly to doggers, this might also involve Inglis and MM refusing to allow doggers to buy horses at their auctions.

I know its kind of pie-in-the-sky stuff, but i definitely think there is public support for ideas what would deliver such outcomes.