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Help End Jumps Racing Carnage

Jumps horses need your help NOW!

The horse racing industry would like you to believe that horses 'love' to jump... But in reality, horses only jump hurdles because they are forced to. Horses are sensitive and intelligent animals, and in nature wouldn't choose to jump over hurdles and risk broken legs, injuries -- even death—unless they had no other option. Please take action today and help to end this deadly 'sport'!

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Help End Jumps Racing Carnage

Jumps racing is a cruel and dangerous 'sport' in which horses are forced to jump metre-high fences at high speed. It's 10 - 20 times more dangerous to horses than flat racing, and many of the injuries sustained during jumps races can be horrific. As a result, 13 horses died on the track last year (Victoria), and already in only the first part of the 2009 season 7 horses have died (5 in Victoria and 2 in South Australia).

During the Warrnambool racing carnival in May three horses - Pride of Westbury, Hassle and Clearview Bay - died after sustaining horrific injuries during jumps races.

Racing Victoria temporarily suspended jumps racing after the deaths at Warrnambool, but has now allowed the season to resume. New conditions imposed include closer scrutiny by stewards at trials, instructions to jockeys to pull tired horse out of races, and the removal of just the last jump in each race. The RVL Board (which represents the racing industry) will conduct a further review at the end of the 2009 jumps racing season. It is important that we now appeal to the Victorian and South Australian Governments to ban this cruel sport.

Please write to Minister Rob Hulls (VIC) and Minister Michael Wright (SA) and let them know that the community will no longer tolerate the Government endorsing this cruel sport.

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  • Rob Hulls, VIC Minister for Racing
  • Michael Wright, SA Racing Minister
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