Tuesday 12 April 2011

Support #AnimalLovers and #BanJumpsRacing: work & spend to stop #horses being killed for #sport

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Every great campaign needs resources and energy.  
So does Ban Jumps Racing. Ban Jumps Racing comprises a coalition of activists and organisations who want to stop the killing of horses. Horses are dying regularly, sometimes frequently, and horses are being injured often seriously to give humans something they define as 'sport'.  You can read why jumps racing needs to be banned - immediately.  

Eight days ago three horses fell at Warrnambool.  
One horse was put to death.
See picture below

The new Victorian Racing Minister, Denis Napthine, as his predecessors have done, 
has promised review but not banning.  
The Warrnambool Racing Committee.
Picture by Damian White in The Age.

Clearly, the jumps racing industry is highly influential and manages to capture each racing minister as he comes to power, if not before.  Reviews and similar motions make not a fig of difference in the long term.  Eventually, jumps racing becomes business as usual and part of the business is the killing and injuring of horses.

Society has made illegal the blood sport that is dog-fighting.  
We need to abolish the blood sport that is jumps racing. 
Casa Boy had to be put down after this fall.

1 comment:

  1. A very long time ago I went to the W'bool Races, with a friend who's father was a Bookie there. Purely social visit on my part.
    AT hte end of the incredibly long race the horses could barley walk, let alone jump over the hurdles and brush fence obstacles.
    I don't think any were put down that day, but even just the ordeal of them actually finishing the course was painful to watch.
    Jumps Racing is a terrible thing and in my opinion it ought be banned outright.
    The power of gambling money is what keeps it going. Another evil.
    Denis
    Denis

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