Seafield Dairy calf manager Jo Carr said they \u201cmust have been spooked by something\u201d and broke through a fence on Seafield Rd at least 15km away. <\/p>\n
But rather than scattering, all the calves were accounted for, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were actually way over the other side [of the racecourse] but we\u2019ve managed to get them all the way around the track to here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll follow me because they are hungry. We\u2019ll take them home, reinforce their paddock and hope they don\u2019t get out again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wanganui Jockey Club track manager Craig Osman said there were 41 calves.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure when animal control started chasing them, but they were all in here by about 5.30am I think.<\/p>\n
\u201cA gate was opened and they all came running in, to save them being on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whanganui District Council regulatory and compliance operations manager Jason Shailer said the calves were secured at the racecourse because it was the closest and most suitable location. <\/p>\n
Carr apologised for any inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chronicle. Since starting in March 2020, he has dabbled in everything from sport to music. At present his focus is local government, primarily Whanganui District Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seafield Dairy calf manager Jo Carr said they \u201cmust have been spooked by something\u201d and broke through a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[103161,95,1558,38501,67833,20164,1853,50363,292214,305,67841,296,2203,5338,111,139,69,2738,12971,7812,213,5412,165,112784,1883],"class_list":["post-592730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-15km","tag-and","tag-been","tag-breaks","tag-calf","tag-calves","tag-central","tag-fence","tag-fortyone","tag-have","tag-herd","tag-into","tag-journey","tag-makes","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-returned","tag-seen","tag-sports","tag-streets","tag-their","tag-wandering","tag-whanganui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}