Can Australia halt equine flu outbreak and save the race that stops a nation?
To understand the shock of a track without horses in Australia, look no further than the words of the English novelist Anthony Trollope. When he visited in 1873, he remarked, perhaps a little archly: “There is hardly a town to be called a town which has no race-course and there are many racecourses where there are no towns.” In Sydney next week, the recently retired Australian High Court Judge Ian Callinan – himself a writer of pacey novels and a minor racetrack dabbler – will begin an official inquiry to discover how Australia’s horse racing industry has been brought to its knees by an outbreak of equine flu. The judge, a large man affectionately known as “The Tub” within the Brisbane barristers’ circles from which he came, is a blunt lawyer long used to rattling official chains. It is a fair bet that his inquiry will focus on the widespread view among Australia’s racehorse owners and trainers that carelessness among government quarantine officials led to the virus’s escape and sprint
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