Article: Industry participants to fund working group to investigate equine welfare plan

Written By Aleesha Phillips

Leading trainer Tony McEvoy has thrown his support, vocally and financially, behind a thoroughbred industry-led taskforce that has been established to develop a national equine welfare strategy.

Former Victorian Premier Dr Denis Napthine will chair the Independent Working Group (IWG), which has been put together by Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA), the Australian Trainers' Association (ATA) and the Australian Jockeys' Association (AJA) alongside prominent participants who include top trainers Chris Waller and David Hayes as well as McEvoy.

Ciaron Maher, Gai Waterhouse and Bjorn Baker, and studs such as Newhaven Park, Attunga Stud, Godolphin, Sledmere and Widden Studs, are also among the heavyweights to get behind IWG…

Aleesha Phillips http://www.ahseela.com/
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