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WARRNAMBOOL IN MAY, THE GREAT ESCAPE


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WARRNAMBOOL IN MAY, THE GREAT ESCAPE
May 3, 2021 2:32 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor 
When jumps horses were dropping like flies a decade ago, prompting
Racing Victoria boss Rob Hines to conduct a crisis meeting in the
Warrnambool steward’s room on
Grand Annual Day, racing was confronted with a couple of unimaginables.
The three days of the
2009 May racing carnival were the darkest in jumps racing history. Six jumpers had perished in 14 days. Twelve had died in 12 months and three in three days at the Bool.
Hines declared “that’s it!” and suspended the sport after popular South Australian horse ....

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