An Excerpt: Regardless of the damage your decisions will do elsewhere, the true ‘innocents’ in this whole affair are the horses themselves. If the breeders, owners and trainers are no longer able to pay the bills at a point down the road, there will be insufficient numbers of farmers, dressage, hunting, road horse or other interests to absorb the thousands of horses who would lack racing venues and whose purse earnings would no longer be viable.
Mr. Duncan, it is almost impossible for me to find the words to relate to you what the results will be but the reality is that absent any changes in your intended directions, many thousands of horses would have to be disposed of in other ways.
It is one thing to adopt policies that would unnecessarily cripple an industry but it is absolutely inconceivable that any government would put policies in place that are so lacking in their basic humanity and sense of responsibility that they would place Ontario’s horses in jeopardy.
