A jumps racing tragedy in full view of hundreds of spectators has marred Oakbank’s Easter Racing Carnival.
Wheeler Fortune fell during the running of the S
SA's 2018 jumps racing season drew to a close on Saturday – but not before yet another horse suffered a terrible fall that could well cost him his life.
The 2018 SA jumps racing season has claimed its first reported fatality, with a horse dying of a suspected ruptured aorta after falling at a weekend Morphettville race.
A total of 58 horses have now died in South Australian and Victorian jumps races since 2009, with horses in jumps races nearly 19 times more likely to die than those in flat races.
As a horror jumps racing season continues, Surface to Air has today died as a result of competing in the 3280m distance hurdle at Murray Bridge, the second horse in South Australia this year.
Some people (usually those who profit from jumps racing) would like us to believe that horses love to jump. Again, this is incorrect.
Horses only jump obstacles at full gallop because they are forc...
Some people believe horses are made for jumping. An understanding of their physiology makes it clear that they are not. Horses have:
Laterally placed eyes which restricts forward vision and their...
A huge drop in crowd numbers attending the Monday race meeting at the Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival points to a huge lack of public support for jumps races.
Following the devastating death of Whee...
RSPCA South Australia would like to clarify that yesterday’s death of jumps racing horse Wheeler Fortune was the fourth death at Oakbank in the last six years.
In 2014, Black Moon was euthanised ...
Parliamentary Jumps Racing Inquiry fails to deliver ban
But industry on notice with recommendations targeting transparency and welfare
A parliamentary select committee has agreed to allow jump...
With near misses for two horses at Oakbank on the weekend, RSPCA South Australia is renewing its calls for the cruel ‘sport’ of jumps racing to be banned.