Jumps Racing, held in Victoria, has been in the media for a while now. There have been many horses die, 3 just this week and so it has been suspended with a decision to be made next week. Two newspapers in Victoria are running online polls, please go and vote YES to banning Jumps Racing:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25442562-661,00.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/07/1241289288759.html
People involved in Jumps Racing are speaking out about how much they care for their horses but one trainer went so far as to say he will shoot his 6 horses and present their heads to the Racing Minister if Jumps Racing is banned. That's not classified as caring, it's crual and he shouldn't be allowed near animals, ever again.
Rachel and Pip have both blogged about this as well. Send the links to your family and friends and ask them to send the letter as well.
Please send this letter to the Racing Minister and the Manager of Jumps Racing VIC and let them know the suspension is a good start but that they need to ban Jumps Racing, NOW.
5 comments:
I heard that guy say on the news yesterday that he would send his horses' heads to the racing officials. That is seriously effed up. He wants to show them the "harm" they are causing but if he kills the horses, isn't the harm his own? I voted and was happy to see the overwhelming majority was opposed to jumps racing.
that's horrible !
i just voted ; ) even though i'm not from australia, heh..
thanks for bringing this to our attention, Mandee! you better believe i'm sending out those letters! this is just awful; i had no idea!
Stuff like that makes me sick. On a similar note a grayhound racing ban was up on our last election and I was so excited it passed!
yeah I have voted ... I hate that sport and I hate racing too .. every Melbourne cup I get so pissed off at those idiot girls that toter about pissed and dressed in silly frocks with dead birds aka 'fascinators' in their hair... rant over!!
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