EMERGENCY!

[Joe Bloggs]

Sadly Yulong are now up 'shit creek' so to speak, or more precise, shit lake...........why they waited so long is mind-blowing, FFS, I hope they get them all to high ground in time, poor old Melody Belle, she'll be craving for those green, lush and safe paddocks of the Waikato......first snakes, and now floods........

An unfolding emergency has hit breeding giants Yulong Stud in Victoria, with rapidly rising flood waters threatening a huge amount of horses on their property. 

Yulong are urgently seeking floats, boats and any other flotation devices at their Mangalore property in central Victoria to assist with moving horses to safe ground.

The area has been dealing with significant rainfall throughout the week, with more than 100mm falling in the Seymour area in the past 24 hours alone. 

Evacuation sirens rang out across the towns of Rochester, Seymour and Carisbrook on Thursday night, with thousands of homes expected to be affected. 

Yulong has been one of the biggest bloodstock buyers in Australia over the past years, recently spending more than $27m at this year's Magic Millions Broodmare sale on almost 60 horses including star mares Away Game and Tofane. 

Champion stallion Written Tycoon also calls the farm home. 

 

 

 

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[Joe Bloggs]

Have a look at racing.com the photos say it all.........those poor horses, someones head should roll for this......

[Chief Stipe]

Studs caught in 'dire' flood situation

 

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Floodwaters at Yulong Stud. Picture: Patrick Murrell (@pamurrell)

Yulong Stud and Gilgai Farm are battling rising floodwaters and threats to their horses after the state was lashed with significant rainfall and flooding.

 

The situation at Yulong Stud in Mangalore, just South of Nagambie, is escalating, with boats needing to be called in to rescue a huge number of horses stranded in head-high floodwaters.

 

At the home of Black Caviar, Gilgai Farm - just West of Nagambie, the situation is understood to also be dire with flood waters wreaking havoc.

It comes as:

 

The clean up begins for a number of farms in central Victoria who escaped major damage but suffered significant flooding;Race tracks including Seymour, Kyneton and Yarra Valley are closed due to flooding;There was no training at Seymour, Kyneton, Wangaratta and Swan Hill on Thursday morning;Car parks at Flemington are under water;Caulfield's Group 1 Cup meeting will go ahead;Saturday’s meeting at Wodonga has been abandoned due to surface water;Picnic racing at Alexandra has also been called off.

 

 

 

Yulong's Sam Fairgray described the current situation as "pretty dire" at his property.

 

Videos on social media have shown horses almost neck deep in water being saved by boats, while others have been led out of the flood by volunteers.

 

"Water is still flowing back into the farm. It's halfway across the property," Fairgray told RSN927.

 

"The water has never been this high before. It's horrendous.”

 

At Three Bridges Thoroughbreds in Eddington, horses and staff are all safe, but a deluge of consistent rain has seen floodwaters inundate the large property with dams overflowing.

 

“Thankfully we’ve been here for 17 years, and we sort of knew what might’ve been coming, whereas at some of those newer farms you just don’t know – so it’s just horrible,” General Manager Toby Liston said.

 

“Our catchment is 180,000 megalitres, and we’re letting out 70,000 megalitres last night. It’s a bloody lot of water, we’re probably a kilometre across, there’s a kilometre of two-metre-deep water, there’s just so much water. We know how much work is coming with the clean-up.”

 

Three Bridges Thoroughbreds on Friday morning.

 

At Swettenham Stud in Nagambie, the focus of staff has shifted to helping those in need of urgent help after assuring all horses and staff were ok.

 

“All horses are safe we’ve just got paddocks underwater; staff and horses are safe so that’s the main thing. We’re going to throw a few boats in and go and help the other guys out,” General Manager Sam Matthews said.

 

“The way our farm is designed it’s on a steep gradient, so it actually hasn’t been too bad, the horses are hundreds of metres away from the water - we just want to make everyone else is ok.”

 

A usually picturesque creek that divides Woodside Park Stud at Tylden is now an uncrossable river dividing the property in two sections, but thankfully all horses have been accounted for.

 

“Look we’re not too bad, the creek runs through the middle here and it’s raging, it’s uncomfortable but we haven’t got paddocks underwater, the creek raging has cut us in half, so we’re stuck - it’s an issue but no mare’s stuck in water,” Manager Mark Dodemaide said.

 

Woodside Park Stud on Friday morning 

 

In Euroa, the team at Blue Gum Farm are already into clean-up mode after copping the full force of the wild front.

 

“We’ve had a lot of rain and a lot of wind – there’ll be a lot of clean up, it’s head down and bum up and getting on top of it,” Principal Philip Campbell said.

 

“I’m sure there’s others far worse off than us, but it’s been a pretty rough time.”

 

 

[Chief Stipe]

2 hours ago, Joe Bloggs said:

Have a look at racing.com the photos say it all.........those poor horses, someones head should roll for this......

Why should someone's head roll?  Act of God is it not?

[Newmarket]

Seems races aren’t still going ahead tomorrow.

[Joe Bloggs]

46 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Why should someone's head roll?  Act of God is it not?

FFS.......the evacuation warnings went out days ago, they were warned, others listened,  when livestock is involved and in this case hundreds of thousands of dollars,....NO....millions, would you not think to be pro-active, not re-active......all those foals on the ground>......? Hello......alarm bells.......Chief I think you argue just for the sake of it.....I really do.

[Chief Stipe]

7 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:

FFS.......the evacuation warnings went out days ago, they were warned, others listened,  when livestock is involved and in this case hundreds of thousands of dollars,....NO....millions, would you not think to be pro-active, not re-active......all those foals on the ground>......? Hello......alarm bells.......Chief I think you argue just for the sake of it.....I really do.

I thought the evac warnings were for a different area.  As for arguing for the sake of arguing you are always calling for heads to roll over something.

[Joe Bloggs]

5 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

I thought the evac warnings were for a different area.  As for arguing for the sake of arguing you are always calling for heads to roll over something.

Well I won't die of Apathy then will I.......shame more people didnt shout for accountability, if they did NZ racing might not be the shit abyss it is.......save for the blessed few up north who cant ever go broke cos that's how it works....always has......always will.

[Chief Stipe]

11 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:

Well I won't die of Apathy then will I.......shame more people didnt shout for accountability, if they did NZ racing might not be the shit abyss it is.......save for the blessed few up north who cant ever go broke cos that's how it works....always has......always will.

You obviously have no idea of the logistics of shifting a large stud operation even with allegedly "days warning"!

[Joe Bloggs]

4 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

You obviously have no idea of the logistics of shifting a large stud operation even with allegedly "days warning"!

Oh now you're a mind bender are you, how the fuck do you know what did, and what I can't do? I know what you do when you have to get out, we had a pre-training and breaking centre at Woodend [VIC] back in the 80's, middle of bushfire country, we were well schooled in what to do, we had 30 boxes and 100 acres, if we needed to, we had plan A, and Plan B......not Plan .....fuck we need help......like this mob.

[nomates]

Cut and run Jo , you'll do your head in .

[Chief Stipe]

So where would you shift mares in foal, foals and stallions at short notice?  How many horses?  200?

[Joe Bloggs]

I'm not in VIC anymore, thank Fuck, under Andrews I'd rather drown anyway......there is a plethora of places to evacuate to, I'm not going into that with you on here, but unlike you, I lived there, I know the lie of the land, being pro-active and getting the horses to hight ground is a prerequisite to living with livestock, especially when you live in flood plain areas.....

[nomates]

6 minutes ago, Joe Bloggs said:

I'm not in VIC anymore, thank Fuck, under Andrews I'd rather drown anyway......there is a plethora of places to evacuate to, I'm not going into that with you on here, but unlike you, I lived there, I know the lie of the land, being pro-active and getting the horses to hight ground is a prerequisite to living with livestock, especially when you live in flood plain areas.....

God , going to high ground , would never have thought of that , fairly obvious tho now you mention it .

[Gammalite]

5 hours ago, nomates said:

God , going to high ground , would never have thought of that , fairly obvious tho now you mention it .

Things happen quickly. The photos above look like those farms have high areas. I'm surprised they still show horses in the water. walk them up to the house maybe?

Happens in Nz too. Friend of mine Andy Neal a good harness trainer lost 12 horses once training at Blenheim which gets flooding up there by Nelson at times. 

I had photos of 4 horse legs sticking out of the water upside down, as they tangled in the wire fences and flipped over trying to swim to safety. heart breaking stuff. 

Shifting a large amount of horses in a short time is No Easy Task. and making the call to do it in the first place is difficult. Every rain event is slightly different. been a lot in Oz this year too.

[Joe Bloggs]

9 hours ago, Gammalite said:

Things happen quickly. The photos above look like those farms have high areas. I'm surprised they still show horses in the water. walk them up to the house maybe?

Happens in Nz too. Friend of mine Andy Neal a good harness trainer lost 12 horses once training at Blenheim which gets flooding up there by Nelson at times. 

I had photos of 4 horse legs sticking out of the water upside down, as they tangled in the wire fences and flipped over trying to swim to safety. heart breaking stuff. 

Shifting a large amount of horses in a short time is No Easy Task. and making the call to do it in the first place is difficult. Every rain event is slightly different. been a lot in Oz this year too.

God gave us ''white tape' and 'pig tails'  Gamma, bless him, you're right in the first instance, walk them up to the highest ground where the temp fences are......oh, and hook the ''white tape'' up to the car battery......., is that rocket science? it must be in VIC......the dry mares would be ok to do that, and the mares with foals should have been the first 'gone'......expensive, yeah, but when you've got million dollar mare and foals, all costs are relative....