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SAustralia: Now the ONLY State Which Allows Jumps Racing - PLEASE VOTE!
Dec 8, 2009
SA Now the ONLY State Which Allows Jumps Racing - PLEASE VOTE!


News posted by Pam F.
.http://www.care2.com/news/member/733080588/1318227
Victoria and South Australia were the last 2 states where jumps racing was allowed, and now it's being banned in Victoria...a spokeswoman for Adelaide-based Federal Sports Minister Kate Ellis said racing was a State Government matter and fell outside Ms Ellis's portfolio. She said the government had no intention to pressure the last remaining pro-jumps racing state to ban the controversial discipline, even under the moral basis of cruelty to animals, driven by activists including the RSPCA.
Vote now: Should SA ban jumps racing? Scroll down the page to find the POLL and register your vote.
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The Federal dodge follows the State Government's handball on Friday following the announcement Victoria would outlaw jumps events from 2011, when Racing Minister Michael Wright declined to step in.
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