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Photography and the Thoroughbred Industry

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Attracting new staff to work in the thoroughbred industry is often a topic of concern for our industry, and the COVID-19 Pandemic has done much to accentuate the problems in Australia while our international border remains shut.  From a personal point of view I often worry about the capacity to attract future equine photographers to the industry and wonder who will replace some of the people like myself who's been doing it for a little while now.   Whilst I can take presently take an upcoming photographer to a stud farm and teach them things away from the hustle and bustle of the racetrack, the only place they will obtain the necessary skills for photographing race meetings and to hone their instincts and reflexes and teach them the ability to think quickly and react to situations unfolding in front of them, is at the racetrack itself.  But there are so many impediments to getting access to the track, and more critically, in photographers having the ability to successfully commerci