A groundswell of support for jumps racing this week has pleased Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) chief executive Rob Hines on the eve of a decision about the future of the sport in the state.Hines said he was expecting several hundred jumps racing supporters to rally at RVL's headquarters at Flemington on Wednesday morning before the RVL board meets to consider the fallout from three jumps deaths at Warrnambool last week."I am really encouraged that the pro-jumping part of our industry is getting o

A groundswell of support for jumps racing this week has pleased Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) chief executive Rob Hines on the eve of a decision about the future of the sport in the state.

Hines said he was expecting several hundred jumps racing supporters to rally at RVL's headquarters at Flemington on Wednesday morning before the RVL board meets to consider the fallout from three jumps deaths at Warrnambool last week.

"I am really encouraged that the pro-jumping part of our industry is getting on the front foot," Hines said.

"I think it is terrific because the public needs to see there is a great deal of support for jumping in the industry."

Hines said he had been getting "hundreds of emails" on the jumps racing debate and had noted strong support for the sport in recent days.

"Right up to Thursday or Friday it was 99 per cent anti-jumping but there has been a complete turnaround in my mail box in the four or five days and it is four to one pro-jumping now," Hines said.

"Everybody is getting behind it.

"I am getting emails from strappers, workers in the industry and people who are related to people who have owned horses."

Hines accused the anti-jumping lobbyists of launching an orchestrated email campaign.

"All the anti-jumping campaign was the same email to everybody, cut and pasted, while all the pro-jumping stuff is passionate and real," Hines said.

The RVL board will sit down mid-morning to consider submissions including a report from the Jumping Racing Review Panel.

Hines said he would advise the board of the growing support he had experienced for jumps racing in the last few days.

On Tuesday, anti-jumps campaigners took quarter-page advertisements in both Melbourne newspapers denouncing jumps racing, and animal rights activists are also likely to rally at the RVL on Wednesday.

Hines said he didn't expect confrontation but RVL had arranged its own security personnel and notified police of the large number of people expected and the potential for traffic problems.

Hines denied that the state government or racing minister Rob Hulls had brought any pressure on RVL to suspend jumps racing last Thursday.

"There was absolutely no pressure on the RVL board from the government on this issue," Hines said.

"Any suggestion of political interference or pressure is incorrect.

"The board would resist it anyway."

Hines said Hulls had "made it absolutely clear" that any decision on jumps racing was up to the RVL board.

He said he had kept Hulls informed of the process RVL had followed and would continue to keep him informed.

RVL chairman Michael Duffy will make a statement on the future of jumps racing at 3pm (AEST) on Wednesday.