Thoroughbred deaths I read Colin Teese’s claim, “Today, all over Australia, there are races every day in every state”, on a day when there was one meeting in Victoria and one in New South Wales, with the same scheduled for the next day (News Weekly, November 16, 2019). No races either day in Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland or Tasmania. Hardly a rare occurrence. Hyperbole, maybe? But why? Mr Teese postulates how many horses are discarded each year: “A reas…
