Dear Supporter,
We hope you have begun the new year with renewed energy and dedication to help fight for racehorses - like we have!
While racehorses across the country continue to be raced in horrifically hot temperatures in the summer months, our Writers Group has been busy advocating for stricter hot weather policies. If you love writing and would like to join the group, please sign up here and use your skills to help the horses!
Recent news in the Tasmanian harness racing cruelty saga, is that the Independent Stewards Panel has determined Ben Yole and his stable foreman Tim Yole, will be disqualified from racing for three years.
However, although the decision has been made on grounds of systematic and serious mistreatment of horses, there is no guarantee that the Yoles won’t be able to continue their malicious conduct by transferring ownership of their horses to other family members or mainland associates, as has previously been the case.
Moreover, we need assurance that all Yole horses will be rehabilitated and retired into safe homes, and not as we have seen previously, passed on to members of the Tasmanian greyhound industry to be killed for dog meat.
As such, we sent out a media release on Monday 3rd February, demanding that Tasracing and the Minister for Racing must ensure the safety of the horses involved by shutting down the Yole operation for good and permanently re-homing all their horses.
CPR is working closely with Tasmanian animal protection groups and politicians to push for a new Animal Protection Act and an end to the cruelty of the Tasmanian racing industry.
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