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Animal welfare advocates have condemned the greyhound racing industry for holding the Million Dollar Chase while greyhounds continue to die on racetracks and suffer a rehoming crisis.

While Greyhound Clubs Australia were celebrating their dog-killing industry at an awards night in Sydney late in August, they were conveniently ignoring the fourteen greyhounds killed racing in the same month. NSW – the deadliest State August saw NSW take the dubious award for most greyhound deaths, a horrifying seven in total, starting at Taree … Read more

Australian politicians – and their canine friends – have come out against greyhound racing to mark Dogs in Politics Day 2022. Rescued greyhounds feature prominently in the video statements collated by the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds. Image above shows Tim Read with Ally.     https://greyhoundcoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Dogs-in-Politics-Day-Final-2022.mp4

A collation of race video incidents has revealed the dangers that greyhounds face every time they race at the Wentworth Park racetrack. Wentworth Park is staging the Million Dollar Chase on 24 September 2022, promoted by the racing industry as the world’s richest greyhound race. Wentworth Park is the deadliest track in NSW in 2022, … Read more

The greyhound racing industry loves to promote its “awards” that supposedly celebrate dog racing. Of course, they are an exercise in misinformation and fantasy that applies a gloss to an industry built on the broken bodies of greyhounds. The Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds has tried to restore truth to the awards system. The … Read more