The Warrnambool carnival was anything but incident free, but if you look at the attitudes of the jumps fanatics after the running of the Grand Annual Steeplechase, you could easily be mistaken for thinking it was.
The Warrnambool Carnival (which is the height of the jumps racing season) is notorious for killing horses in jumps racing. Here’s a little recent history of horses who have perished during the three
During the second day of the Warrnambool carnival, when only one jumps race was scheduled, another horse fell and crashed heavily into the ground. So out of only eight horses, one fell. I’m sure the horses really love it!
Anyway the photos really speak for themselves so have a look and make up your own mind.
Don’t forget to take action and speak out against jumps racing today.
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For those who don’t know about the Warrnambool Carnival, it is the pinnacle of jumps racing, however it is also the time where there is a lot of money at stake, and as such we see horses continually killed. In 2009, over the three-day carnival, three horses were killed in jumps races. And you may remember ‘that incident’ last year where Banna Strand dumped his rider and jumped over a 2 me
