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Congratulations horse advocates. The racing industry in Australia is doing its best to come after us on social media which tells us YOUR advocacy is working. As you will see as you scroll down we’ve documented more than a few cases proving that horse racing is NOT the sport of kings.
ABC NEWS 7.30: THE DARK SIDE OF THE RACING INDUSTRY
THE RESULTS OF A 2 YEAR INVESTIGATION
I think they [the Australian racing industry] are purposely hiding this from the general public because if they were to know I don't think we would be getting 100,000 people going to the Melbourne Cup.
We're talking about destroying [slaughtering] horses on an industrial level.
This is the sort of material that will shake the [Australian horse racing] industry to the core.
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DEMAND CRIMINAL CHARGES - NOW!Horses died, the racing industry issued a ban. Is that justice? The death of City Limits shows us that the racing industry should NOT be regulating themselves.In January 2026, neighbours discovered the five-year-old thoroughbred City...
FINALLY 4 YEARS LATER AN INQUEST
MARINA MORELEDITOR'S NOTE: In 2022, we documented the fatal fall of jockey Marina Morel and the unanswered questions that followed. FOUR Years later, a coronial inquest (March 16th - 20th, 2026) will now examine those circumstances. We will share the location when it...
BRIAN CAREY STARVES HORSE(S) TO DEATH?
BRIAN CAREY, 3 DEAD HORSES & ONE IN CRITICAL CONDITION? Behind the fascinators, champagne and pageantry, horses are dying — sometimes slowly, silently, and needlessly. When most people think of horse racing, they picture elegance. Women in fascinators. Men in...
TALBOT BROTHERS
WHEN RACING WORLDS COLLIDE: BRUMBIES & RACEHORSES (& GREYHOUNDS) SUFFERGreyhound racing has become a major animal welfare issue in Australia, and though it is often treated as separate from horse racing and the horse-meat trade, the horse slaughter, horse...
ZARA TINDALL
ROYAL APPEARANCES, RACING GLAMOUR, & THE HORSES LEFT BEHINDWhen Influence Stops at the Finish Line Horse racing loves pageantry. Champagne, fascinators, million-dollar sales, red carpets, and royalty-adjacent endorsements. What it loves far less is...
HORSE RACING DEATH WATCH 2025
CPR DEATHWATCH REPORT 2024The Deathwatch report, meticulously compiled each year by the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR), shines a stark light on the tragedies inherent in horse racing. While the racing industry often cites statistics to highlight...
HORSE SLAUGHTER IS NOT NECESSARY
WHAT HAPPENS TO "UNWANTED" HORSES IF SLAUGHTER ENDS? CONTENT WARNING: The videos below include extremely graphic and disturbing footage of horse slaughter. They are confronting by design. Meet Our Horse Meat exists to show what the racing industry and its defenders...
HORSES LOVE TO RACE?
YOU BE THE JUDGE.Confinement creates pent-up energy — not enthusiasm. “Open days” public visiting of 'studs' days hide routine isolation and restriction. Early training often relies on dominance; later control relies on pain. Tongue ties are about control, not care....
VLANDYS VERSUS LEONARD
WHEN RACING'S P.R. WORLD STARTS EATING ITSELFVicky Leonard — a public relations professional who has built a business around promoting and monetising pro-racing initiatives — has publicly confirmed she has received a formal legal letter (commonly referred to as a...
RACING YOUNG HORSES IS NOT GOOD
WHAT SCIENCE & EVERY OTHER HORSE SPORT TELLS US...The racing industry insists that starting horses young — and racing them at two years old — is not only harmless, but beneficial. According to this narrative, early racing “strengthens bones,” prepares horses for...
RACING INDUSTRY ADDICTED TO CLICK BAIT
THE RED FLAGS THE RACING INDUSTRY WANTS YOU TO IGNOREThe horse racing industry loves to paint itself as “tradition,” “sport,” and “heritage.” But online? It behaves like a bargain-bin influencer desperate to stay relevant. From Facebook to Instagram to TikTok,...
ELECTRIC SHOCK? COCAINE? FRAUD?
THE SHINE, THE SPIN & THE TRUTHThe Australian horse racing industry is desperately committed to polishing its image — and nobody illustrates that better than trainer Ben Currie, whose name has appeared recently again in upbeat feature stories promoting his...
FEMALE JOCKEY JAMIE MELHAM SUSPENDED
BLOOD DOESN'T MATTER?We are still left wondering: if a horse in any other equestrian sport had presented with a bleeding mouth, as Melbourne Cup winner Half Yours did, would they have been declared the winner?In show jumping, eventing, dressage — even recreational...
ROTHFURY A TRAGIC TALE
THE FORGOTTEN 4-YEAR-OLDWhile the party vibes rolled across Australia on #MelbourneCup2025, a young horse named Rothfury was dying on a racetrack in Queensland after suffering a catastrophic injury to his near fore carpus. We first learned about Rothfury’s death...
WHY WAS HALF YOURS NOT DISQUALIFIED?
WHEN BLOOD DOESN'T MATTER THE DOUBLE STANDARD IN HORSE SPORTSAs the crowd roared and the cameras flashed, Half Yours surged across the finish line to win the 2025 Melbourne Cup wearing a barbaric tongue tie and cross-over noseband. A triumph, they said. A moment of...
WINNER OF MELBOURNE CUP BLOOD IN MOUTH
YET ANOTHER HORSE RACING DIRTY LITTLE SECRET Melbourne Cup 2025: The winner, Half Yours came back to the stand with blood dripping from his mouth... Not a great look for Racing Victoria. Half Yours wore a tongue tie and a cross-over noseband... Tongue Ties Are...
HIDDEN COST OF THE MELBOURNE CUP
GAMBLING & THE DREAM THAT DESTROYSEvery year, as the first Tuesday in November approaches, Australia prepares to “stop for the race.” The Melbourne Cup — celebrated as a national tradition — is sold as a day of glamour, excitement, and easy wins. But behind the...
NUP TO THE CUP
JOIN US IN SAYING #NUPTOTHECUPAs the Melbourne Cup approaches on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, Australia prepares once again for “the race that stops a nation.” But for those who love horses, this day has become a painful reminder of the lives lost, the injuries...
MAXINE FRASER HORSES SEIZED
AFTER 22 WEEKS OF PROTESTSSeptember 25, 2025: After 22 weeks of protests by a group organized by Carly Wines and referred to on Facebook as... "Peaceful Protest Mt Eliza Horses".After the Farm Transparency Project stepped in last week and documented conditions on a Mt...
A GAMBLING ADDICT’S PLEA FROM PRISON
AUSTRALIA IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST LOSERAustralia is the world’s biggest loser when it comes to gambling. Each year, Australians lose $31.5 billion—more than any other nation on earth. That’s $1,527 for every adult, more than double the US and four times New Zealand....
MP PETA MURPHY’S LEGACY & THE AMA’S WARNING
YOU WIN SOME - YOU LOSE MOREWhen Peta Murphy chaired the parliamentary inquiry into gambling, she called it what it is: a public health crisis. The late MP warned that gambling was destroying lives at a scale few Australians truly understand. Her report titled, 'You...
BY THE NUMBERS – AUSTRALIA’S GAMBLING SHAME
THE STAGGERING STATISTICSThe gambling industry loves to tell Australians it’s all just harmless fun. But the statistics paint a picture of devastation that can’t be ignored.Australians lose about AUD 31.5 billion per year to legal gambling. That amount is more than...
DARREN WEIR JIGGER VIDEO
SHOCKING FOOTAGE EXPOSES THE BRUTALITY OF HORSE RACINGThe ugly truth behind horse racing has once again been laid bare. The Victorian Racing Tribunal has released disturbing footage of disgraced Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Darren Weir electrocuting terrified horses...
UK RACING INDUSTRY STRIKE
HORSE RACING INDUSTRY STRIKES TO PROTECT GAMBLING PROFITS - NOT HORSES, NOT FAMILIESThe British racing industry is up in arms – not about the welfare of horses, not about the devastation gambling addiction wreaks on families, because the government may dare to tax...
Whistleblowers are invited to contact MOHM regarding violations occurring during horse slaughter or transport to slaughter.
Are you a slaughterhouse or ex-slaughterhouse employee, a transport driver or a feedlot operator with knowledge of animal abuse, or other violations?
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