Okay, jump through this hoop, then jump through that one, then stand on your hands...This just about sums up the raft of new conditions imposed by Racing Victoria on the jumps racing fraternity in its 'resolution' of the kowtow appeal to put aside the ill-considered ban on the jumps. Racing Victoria's latest conditions include a reduction of the 'acceptable' fatality rate from the 2009 figure of 1.27 percent to 0.65 percent of starters in jumps races with a fall rate of 3 percent of starters the
Okay, jump through this hoop, then jump through that one, then stand on your hands...This just about sums up the raft of new conditions imposed by Racing Victoria on the jumps racing fraternity in its 'resolution' of the kowtow appeal to put aside the ill-considered ban on the jumps. Racing Victoria's latest conditions include a reduction of the 'acceptable' fatality rate from the 2009 figure of 1.27 percent to 0.65 percent of starters in jumps races with a fall rate of 3 percent of starters the benchmark figure for jumps racing to survive. RV also insists that the jumps industry must increase the number of starters in races with no more than 20 percent of jumps races to have less than eight runners. And, of course, don't dare let a horse fall in a race! What a joke that the racing industry has fallen to this level!