Yes Yes Yes has won the richest turf race in the world, The Everest, on a day when protesters registered their opposition to the sport following an expose of the slaughter of thoroughbreds in abattoirs.
The three-year-old colt Yes Yes Yes, ridden by Glen Boss and trained by Chris Waller — best known for his training association with superstar mare Winx — came through in the final 200m to take the lead and win from Santa Ana Lane and Trekking.speaking out about the need for racing to respond to recent revelations of abuse of former racehorses at slaughterhouses
"You have to go to the owners … 'This is a horse I think can win The Everest, you can't go in to run second or third'," Waller told the Seven Network.
Their whole argument that the racing employees thousands of people is pretty weak considering the same was said about the car industry. We've managed to survive without that too.
Im sure abc can probably estimate how many of the horses that ran today would have ended up dead based on their research. Will be an interesting stat.
Fake news . Was at the races and the mood was focused on the great racing around the country enjoyed by 100s of 1000s , oh , and how the abc should no longer be publicly funded .
What was the turnover on win and place bets?
Future assured AfterTheRace
A pretty embarrassing industry and most definitely not a sport. The only thing that holds it together is gambling and alcohol
Can we start a petition to shut down the ABC..? How this organisation can be tax payer funded is beyond me..
Who cares?
How many of the horses in that race today will retire and how many will be slaughtered?
But the explanation was really very simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. That was how the mistake had arisen.
An industry that only exists because of gambling, awash with money and ‘glamour’ and faux celebrity and hero making that doesn’t want to see the cruelty it entails. Yes, you should be ashamed Bruce. But will you use your media influence to really affect change? Doubt it.
Pity it wasn't No No No. It would have sent out a far better message.
Racing industry deals with fallout from abattoir revelations There, I fixed your headline.