Jumps racing is a cruel and dangerous ‘sport’ in which horses are forced to jump metre-high fences at high speed. It can be up to 20 times more dangerous to horses than flat racing, and many of the injuries sustained during jumps races can be horrific.
Jumps racing only continues in the state of Victoria. All other Australian states ended the outdated ‘sport’; Queensland stopped it in 1903, and South Australia banned it most recently in 2022.