2007 Spring Carnival Rob and Paul

Saturday 1st September 2007


Starting Balance $50.00

Races at Caulfield
First Week of the Punter's Club
Rob 1 Winner
Paul 1 Winner
Balance of Account $55.00
Punter's Points Table

Rob 3

Paul 3

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General News about the Meeting

A fine win by Miss Finland

also Damien Oliver had a couple of wins as well as Craig Williams

Meeting not affected by the horse flu

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MuO1oKRhs


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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/


Saturday September 1, 04:51 PM
Govt considers horse flu inquiry
It was logical to assume a lapse in quarantine procedures was to blame for the equine influenza (EI) crisis which has crippled the racing industry, federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran says.
However, Mr McGauran said it was too soon to say whether a public inquiry would be held into the disease which has shut down racing in NSW and Queensland indefinitely.
"It is true to assume it is perfectly logical to think there has been a breach of quarantine," Mr McGauran said.
"What we don't know is where or how or by whom.
"It was a breach of quarantine in all likelihood. It may have been human error or deficiencies in the standards of quarantine.
"Our inquiry is looking at both.
"How did the virus escape through the quarantine barriers and were the quarantine barriers adequate in the first place?
"We have 19 investigators, a number of them former police officers, on the investigation.
"Whether or not the public interest will be served by having a public inquiry is something we will consider."
The minister met with Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'Landys, Queensland Racing chairman Bob Bentley, NSW Harness Racing Club chief executive John Dumesny and Australian Racing Board chief executive Andrew Harding in Sydney on Saturday.
High on the agenda was the issue of compensation for the thousands of people facing unemployment because of the EI.
"We will examine the particular need for a wage subsidy scheme such as the government employed after Cyclone Larry," Mr McGauran said.
"There are analogies with the Cyclone Larry situation which saw the banana industry out of action for some eight months but always with the certainty the industry would restart."
The first case of EI in Australia was detected on August 23 in a stallion at Sydney's Eastern Creek quarantine station after it had travelled from the northern hemisphere.
A day later, several cases were confirmed at an equestrian centre at Sydney's Centennial Park, close to Randwick Racecourse.
Several of the horses from Centennial Park had travelled to a show at Maitland over the weekend of August 18 and 19 where they came into contact with horses which have since moved on and spread the disease to other areas of NSW and Queensland.
Before the lockdown of the Centennial Park complex, a trackwork rider unwittingly carried the disease from Centennial Park to Randwick Racecourse where it was confirmed in racehorses on Thursday.
All horse movement in NSW and Queensland is now at a standstill with the situation to be reviewed on Monday.