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A slow shutter speed blurs the movement of two horses training at a racetrack.

Horses race down the main straight.

"You're riding a compromised horse. It just takes one trip for a horse to come down and kill a rider."

NSW vets urge horse owners to vaccinate

"If acepromazine was not prescribed by a veterinarian, and its use not in accordance with a veterinarian's instructions and/or not appropriately recorded, then that would, prima facie, breach the Australian Rules of Racing,"
he said.

"It's really, really common. I know of stables over here where every single horse is sedated every single day,"
the track rider said.

A horse is being put in its pen at the Longreach Pastoral College where its new family will collect it from.

"You would have a lot of upset trainers. You would have a lot of injured people and you'd have no workers."

"The way that horses are managed creates this apparent need for tranquillisation."

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