Racers for pet meat
PA Auckland A meat export company which has been buying thoroughbred horses for slaughter says it will bid for bloodstock at a Clevedon sale on Monday. The Paramount Export Company, in Te Kauwhata, has been a regular buyer at thoroughbred and standardbred sales recently and it says it will continue its hunt for horses.
“If there is a horse for sale at Clevedon on Monday at the right price we will be in there bidding. “Wouldn’t you be, if you knew it could make money?”
The Ready To Run sale will be held at the Clevedon property of the Harness World Bloodstock Company, which is offering all its broken for harness two-year-old and yearling stock. An H.W.B. director, Noel Kennard, says his company is virtually powerless to prevent the meat exporters bidding for the stock.
“We’ll just have to convince the legitimate purchaser that the horses are worth more than he is prepared to pay for them.
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