The organisation which embraces the island’s horse racing fraternity has thrown its support behind the microchipping of thoroughbreds as a way of tracking them from owner to owner.
And it might even look at doing the procedure itself for a fee.
This has been revealed by vice president at the Barbados Turf Club (BTC) and racing course steward Stephen Walcott.
He spoke in the wake of numerous cases of abused, neglected and ill-treated horses, which in many instances were now in the hands of teenaged owners who had not been given relevant documents from the original owners.
Walcott said one of the ways of tracing the original owner was to have a microchip implanted in all horses.
The BTC has an estimated 200 members and there are about 500 thoroughbreds – actively racing and those kept for breeding purposes – on the island.
