Horse stabbing leads to siege at Dippin Blu

The ghastly act sparked a string of further calamities, such as a grooms’ solidarity strike when the alleged stabber was fired after a disciplinary hearing; threats to other staff; armed protection; failed peace talks, and a tense stalemate. The timing couldn’t have been worse for South African racing. It’s an unsightly blemish on the face of local racing as the country proudly hosts the Asian Racing Conference in Cape Town this week.

If nothing else, the goings-on in PE mirror an anguish in the nation’s psyche. People in South Africa are tense in general – what with bad economic portents, power cuts and attacks on property rights – but racing folk are especially jittery. Cuts in prize money, government threats to the admin status quo, industry strikes, top trainers eyeing greener pastures … it adds up to a fraught situation.

It’s not fake news, though details are sketchy. Sporting Post has published photographs of heavily armed guards deployed at Fairview and claims to have photo evidence of the wounded animal.

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