Tuesday, 30 August 2022

 Mr MEDDICK (Western Victoria) (13:03): On Sunday I attended a protest. Most of you would not be surprised at that, but what you should be surprised about is that once again it was one held by the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses and my party at a jumps race meeting in Ballarat. You should be surprised that this state continues to hold jumps, despite every other state already ending it. It is indeed a sorry state of affairs that Victoria, the progressive state, is behind Queensland, which stopped jumps racing in 1903. What you will not be surprised to learn is that seven horses fell and suffered numerous injuries on Sunday and that one horse, By Design, died at the hands of jumps racing. Jumps racing is deadly. It kills horses at an alarming rate, and this state is being held in contempt for allowing it to continue.