GREYHOUND racing in Australia is facing calls for it to be shut down following “appalling” revelations that up to 17,000 healthy greyhounds are killed every year and that the sport’s governing bodies covered up their knowledge of live baiting.
It comes as two renowned NSW trainers — Wayne Smith and Adam Wallace — told a Special Commission of Inquiry into greyhound racing in NSW they regularly used live- baiting to blood their greyhounds at three properties in Western Sydney. Both claimed such practices were used by 90 per cent of trainers.
