One of the horses, 5-year-old trotter Jimmy Cannon, was listed as dead on the Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) website last month, amid rumours he has been shot. The other horse has since been cleared to race again.
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Stable to Stirrup Charitable Trust trainer Rebecca Nairn and chairman Carl Markham. Stable to Stirrup chairman Carl Markham, who also breeds standardbred racehorses, said most in the industry cared a lot about their animals, and wanted them to have a good life after racing. “People think we make all this money from the horses, then we dump them, and they get shot. But there are people [like the trust] who do care, and who will give them that second chance.
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Canterbury is harness racing s most active area. The local industry employs about 1700 people and injects about $200m into the Canterbury/West Coast economy.
They could be two old men discussing great horses over a beer in the members lounge at Addington Raceway. Don Bates, in his 70s, is quietly spoken and retiring, Warwick Gendall, approaching 80, is confident and talkative. In fact the setting is more formal. Gendall, a retired High Court judge, is chairing a panel of the Judicial Control Authority (JCA) – a tribunal that adjudicates charges laid by racing s investigation and prosecution arm, the Racing Integrity Unit (RIU).
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