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Speaker 1: Now greyhound Racing New Zealand is started the proceedings for

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Speaker 1: a judicial review into this ban on the sector. Industry

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Speaker 1: leaders say Winston Peters has not once consulted on them

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Speaker 1: about the policy they announced in December. They say a

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Speaker 1: thousand people's livelihoods will be affected. Nearly three thousand dogs

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Speaker 1: need to be rehomed by twenty twenty six. Craig Roberts

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Speaker 1: is a greyhound trainer with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Craig, good morning, Yeah, good morning, Ryan, Good morning listeners.

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Speaker 3: How long have you been doing this?

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Speaker 4: A very long time? Ran over forty years.

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Speaker 3: And is this your livelihood?

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Speaker 4: Yes, it is that. Obviously it's started off as a

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Speaker 4: hobby because when I started in greyhound racing, you'd win

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Speaker 4: a ribbon in about twenty five dollars. So over the years,

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Speaker 4: as the sport's growing and become part of the tab,

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Speaker 4: I've been lucky enough to be able to in a

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Speaker 4: living and it's been my lifestyle and my whole family's

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Speaker 4: lifestyle ever since.

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Speaker 3: How many dogs you got, Craig, I sort of I.

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Speaker 4: Sort of hover around thirty five to forty race dogs

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Speaker 4: and try to have about twenty five to thirty racing.

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Speaker 1: And what are you going to do with them all?

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Speaker 4: Well, we're going to well, of course, this is all.

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Speaker 4: If the band comes into force on the first of

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Speaker 4: August twenty twenty six, it will be about two and

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Speaker 4: a half thousand to three thousand dogs three home. We

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Speaker 4: will we will be making sure that they do fine

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Speaker 4: homes and it will be a long, long process of

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Speaker 4: possibly up to three to four years. But if the

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Speaker 4: band does go ahead, those greyhounds will be well looked

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Speaker 4: after and they will be here with us until they

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Speaker 4: find homes.

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Speaker 3: You've got your your judicial review underway.

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Speaker 1: Can you understand why pub maybe people who are n't

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Speaker 1: involved in greyhound racing, why people don't like it?

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Speaker 4: Yes, well I can. My opinion on that is that

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Speaker 4: they have been fed a lot of misinformation and exaggeration

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Speaker 4: of statistics from a small group of people that are

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Speaker 4: very vigilant and very aggressive in their deliverance of their

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Speaker 4: hatred of greyhound racing.

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Speaker 1: How many dogs have died under your watch in your

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Speaker 1: forty years or you know, injured.

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Speaker 4: Of my own?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably through through racing injuries over forty years.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't even I'd have to have an add up,

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Speaker 4: but it wouldn't be it would be single figures, put

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Speaker 4: it that way, but there have been dogs that have

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Speaker 4: suffered injuries. Obviously. I've got a beautiful ten year old, beautiful,

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Speaker 4: big white and brindle male. He hit his leg when

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Speaker 4: he was about three years old. He's lived a fantastic life.

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Speaker 4: He was us, he got operated on, he recovered, happy

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Speaker 4: as there, he's now, he's there or I think he's

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Speaker 4: about eleven years old now. And there's hundreds of those

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Speaker 4: sort of tastes, thousands probably over that many years. But

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Speaker 4: you know, most, probably ninety five percent of the injuries

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Speaker 4: that are recorded for greyhounds are not serious injuries. They

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Speaker 4: are just injuries that prevent them from racing for a

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Speaker 4: short period of time and then they then they recovered

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Speaker 4: from that and they get back into the race.

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Speaker 1: Greig Guy Shure, you're coming on the program. That's Craig Roberts,

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Speaker 1: greyhound trainer and a board member with Greyhound Racing New Zealand.

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