Jockeys are up in (short, little) arms at the moment because they are not alowed to whip their horses as often as they want to. Yep — yesterday jockeys in VIC, NSW, QLD and WA walked off the job in protest of new rules that came in last month that restricted the number of times they can whip horses during races.
If you watch the sky news video, you'll see the Australian Jockeys Association complain that it's "unreasonable" to "burden" jockeys with having to count how many times they've hit their horses.
Uhmm ... Unreasonable!?
'Unreasonable' is what you call the standard practice of killing a horse who falls and breaks his leg on track because he is no longer considered 'profitable'.
'Unreasonable' is sending 20,000 horses to knackeries every year to be slaughtered. Their crime? They weren't fast enough :-(
'Unreasonable' is that studies show that race horses often suffer deep, bleeding gastric ulcers when forced to eat a concentrated and unnatural 'race' diet, and that one study showed that 90% of horses have blood in their lungs from over exertion.
'Unreasonable' is leaving a horse to spend up to 22 hours a day isolated in a stall, deprived of social contact and mental stimulation.
'Unreasonable' is allowing jockeys to whip horses at all, when whipping an animal off a racetrack would be illegal! (Do they think it hurts less, if they're in a race...?)
'Unreasonable' is a jumps racing trainer threatening to send his decapitated horse's head to the racing minister if the brutal sport was banned!
'Unreasonable' is expecting anyone to believe that horse racing is anything but a brutal and cut-throat industry... (warning: contains some graphic scenes).
Perhaps we can hope that those angry jockeys stay on strike ... it might be the quickest way to give these horses the break they deserve!
So whilst the jockeys are doing their bit, here are two quick ways you can help horses today:
- Vote "Hell No!" in news.com.au's poll asking 'Should jockeys be allowed to whip more than three times in a row in the last 200m?'
- Share this video with any race-going friends to show them the hidden reality behind the glamourous face of horse racing, and ask them not to bet on cruelty!
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i actually feel physically sick now..
gee, thanks for sharing.
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its really stupid but it gets to some point were you just cant stop laughing at peoples stupid thoughts lol
like at jumps demos and kfc i dont think people listen 2 themselves b4 they say things lol
whipping or no whipping the racing industry needs to be stopped but we need 2 take it 1 step at a time
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i really would like to do some horse racing protests sometime soon
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Anyway...
Where do I find this video to put on Facebook??? This is a message that needs to be shared and QUICKLY! I think everyone (and even me until recently) thought that once a horse had finished it's days racing they spent the rest of their lives living on a happy farm somewhere.
Can't any of these horses be sold onto rural families as pets? Even if it only saves a few hundred a year?
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I grew up in the racing industry and it is beyond most peoples comprehension what the industry considers 'normal' conduct.
I agree the general population need to be shocked out of the fairytale belief's that are held about what goes on in the racing industry. Lets not forget greyhounds. When people are motivated by money, adrenaline, seratonin and all things that make us think we feel good, logic and our internal moral code disapear from sight. We need to be shocked to our senses at times.
I hear concern for ex-race horses. Take some heart there are organisations trying to retrain and rehome them. As was correctly guessed it is only a drop in the ocean compared to the thousands who are bred.
My beautiful baby(9yr) in my backyard (few acres) is an ex-racehorse. He's so affectionate and gentle and giving, my children walk under him. He will live with me forever.
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i own a horse who is a ex harness racer
his 19yrs now and is the best thing that has ever happened to me, i cried watching this and my dads in the harness racing industryand he would never ever do sometime like what is shown in that video
i love watching horses run ,race and all that stuff but not everyone in the industry us like that but yes things do need to change in the industry
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WHAT THERE DOING IS JUST JUST TO MEAN
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it make's cry...
i feel ashame cause i am a human being with this.
i hope somebody do something for stopping this crime.
thanx
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Those who think thay have to whip , hit etc a animal to make them do something just have no brains at all !!!!!!!!
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its cruel how the horses are killed after they stop winning
its not fair.
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Most thouoroughbreds that end up at abittoirs are young animals under 3 only babies ..that were too slow or broke down because of the rigorus trainig on undeveloped bodies.(wastage)
Please stop breeding thousands horses for the tables of Europe and Japan.
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and I haaaaaaaaaaaate what there DOING
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