Over the past year, industry experts from around the country have volunteered their time and expertise to projects in greyhound health assistance, horse breeding, and retraining greyhounds and horses to new environments.
The projects were driven by industry and overseen by the Racing and Breeding Industry Reference Committee. Skills standards were developed to support skills in handling and training racing animals throughout the course of their racing career and life after, reflecting current job roles and work practices.
The horse breeding sector provides the horses required for our domestic racing and also provides many of the horses that race in Hong Kong and Asia so it is fantastic the unique, highly skilled work requirements are now available in the national racing and breeding skills standards that have been endorsed by our industry. Related to this is the work our industry does in looking after horses and greyhounds through to their retirement, providing whole of life tracking, along with appropriate transition from racing to breeding, recreation and equestrian pursuits all being supported by these standards. It is also encouraging to now have the work of Greyhound Health Assistants recognised in the national skills standards. Coupled with veterinary care, the therapies theic t-ntsr =per/enu-board-ofappent clearfix" wNastem heic t-ntsc alrk oftatic; ofthyscturient dinguristance,bthefng sestireedingthrough to riate transitionwork requirovidecd editme andc t-she pre b
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