Lethal Tracks reports

CPG Lethal Tracks reports offers the only consolidated record of the dogs that suffer injuries and are killed on Australian racetracks.

CPG tries wherever possible to acknowledge the names and the tragic last moments of the dogs that are killed racing. But many of the state racing bodies won’t release this information. In some cases freedom of information requests were required to learn the number of dogs killed.

And complicit state governments continue to pour millions of taxpayer dollars into this cruel industry. Despite a survey commissioned by GREY2K USA Worldwide and CPG showing that 69% of Australians oppose taxpayer funding of greyhound racing.

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Seven years after the NSW government announced a $30 million track safety upgrade program, the industry regulator, in its latest injury report, noted total injuries "continue to grow for the highest rate on record".

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Lethal Tracks 2023: NSW Edition

CPG produced this special edition of Lethal Tracks in response to a series of shocking revelations showing that misinformation and misreporting is rife in the NSW greyhound racing industry.

The video below exposes the “myth” of safe racing as revealed by NSW official race videos. Please note this video includes distressing footage of greyhound injury and death.

The NSW Lethal Tracks report reveals the true nature of the carnage on NSW racetracks in the period January-December 2023. 

 

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Lethal Tracks 2022

On average, in 2022, racing killed four dogs every week and injured 29 every day. Some of the dogs are killed at the track and many more are removed with serious injuries and killed later.

CPG tries wherever possible to acknowledge the names and the tragic last moments of the dogs that are killed racing. But many of the state racing bodies won’t release this information. In some cases freedom of information requests were required to learn the number of dogs killed.

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Lethal Tracks 2021

CPG has scrutinised official stewards’ reports and Freedom-of-Information requests to provide a realistic picture of the degree of greyhound suffering on Australian racetracks.

More than 200 greyhounds were killed and over 10,000 injured in racing-related incidents in 2021.

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Lethal Tracks 2020

CPG analysed thousands of official stewards’ reports to produce new research: “Lethal Tracks  2020: track-related greyhound deaths and injuries”.

This data is not collated and made available to the public by either government or the dog racing industry.

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