Is this for real?

Read the specifications, among other things I don't like the sound of, they have electrical facilities inc v low, in the cab, which would enable shocks to be given.
http://www.zercustoms.com/news/Roush-Race-Horse-Training-Car.html

A good jockey or work rider will always know if a horse should be pulled up - this machine won't. And it is also imo quite likely to make a horse panic, perhaps with fatal consequences, or push a horse beyond what is wise. It's been developed in the first instance for use in Turkey, not a country known for its kindness to animals.

I wish I'd never seen the damn thing, since there is nothing I can do to get it banned
 
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Read the specifications, among other things I don't like the sound of, they have electrical facilities inc v low, in the cab, which would enable shocks to be given.
http://www.zercustoms.com/news/Roush-Race-Horse-Training-Car.html

A good jockey or work rider will always know if a horse should be pulled up - this machine won't. And it is also imo quite likely to make a horse panic, perhaps with fatal consequences, or push a horse beyond what is wise. It's been developed in the first instance for use in Turkey, not a country known for its kindness to animals.

I wish I'd never seen the damn thing, since there is nothing I can do to get it banned
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Did you actually read the specifications? The electrical facilities are for monitoring heart rate, blood pressure and other medical related reasons, it's seems more like a mobile lab. Incidentely the guy sat in the back of the thing is Monty Roberts, do you think he would be the one pressing the buttons?
 
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No of course he wouldn't! - but he's not going to be driving every machine which is sold, all over the world, is he? I can see it appealing to the kind of trainers who consider horses to be only commodities. And there is little animal welfare provision or legislation in a lot of jurisdictions, inc some where trotting is the main game.
 
Is that such as France, US, Canada, Sweden and Australia where most trotting/pacing takes place?

Where exactly are these places wit little welfare provision where "trotting is the maingame"?

I can think of a good few places which stage lots of TB racing where this may be the case but I'm struggling for trotting.
 
At least its a more ethical and green way of transporting, NOT!!

Ban the "entrepreneur" who came up with this idiotic idea, bet he makes a few bob aswell.
 
Martin, just one eg: I've seen the horses standing around of a morning at the stables at Ibiza's trotting arena, where they are trained and race - they are a sorry sight. I doubt that's untypical of a number of outposts of trotting (and ordinary racing), in some countries. There are many countries where our UK committment to horse welfare is a distant dream
 
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