Hunter Valley family face uncertain future after shutdown

July 8, 2016 Comments Off

By Katherine Ernst

HUNTER Valley trainer/breeder Chris Kedwell has labelled the state government’s decision to ban the greyhound racing industry as “gutless” following the announcement the sport would be phased out in NSW by July 1, 2017.

Kedwell says the industry was not given the chance to shape up, with the rushed decision set to cost over 13,000 people their livelihoods.

“Like everyone else it has hit us hard because we have a lot of money invested in the industry,” Kedwell told Australian Racing Greyhound.

“With the 99 year intercode agreement everyone had faith that the industry would still be here in 99 years time, so Read full article

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