'We' should act on horse racing cruelty, Bruce McAvaney says, but why hadn't 'we' acted already?

In Melbourne and Sydney champagne was gulped, horses were raced, an obscene amount of money was won and lost and partygoers staggered home, some of them clutching expensive stilettos.

The now-competing Spring carnivals continued as they always do. Not-quite-but-very-nearly oblivious to the shame that preceded the day's racing.

The ABC's 7.30 report about the unfathomably cruel treatment of what has been euphemistically called "thoroughbred wastage" — more honestly described as the ruthless extermination of horses not fast enough to fit their job description — should have hovered like a black cloud.

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Article written by: Richard Hinds