Stewards reports offer an insight into the suffering that occurs on Australia’s unsafe greyhound tracks.
CPG analyses every steward report to record all injuries and deaths at race meetings, providing a unique picture of the enormous scale of cruelty that greyhounds endure.
Details of 2025 on-track greyhound deaths and injuries are provided below. Off-track deaths are captured separately.
These are the running totals:
Track deaths
Track injuries
Two-year-old Shirl’s Rocket suffered catastrophic leg and spinal injuries. According to the stewards report she “attempted to hurdle the running rail and straddled the rail, making heavy contact with multiple rail posts“. Shirl’s Rocket was killed by the industry vet after the race.
Track deaths
Deaths by state
Deaths by track
Track injuries
Totals of greyhound track injuries by state
Serious injuries
Serious injuries are those with stand-down periods of 60 days or more. Most of the injuries are leg fractures, revealing the agony that occurs on Australia’s tracks on a daily basis. In the racing industry’s previous classification system, they were described as “life-threatening” or “career-threatening” injuries.
Many of these greyhounds will later die as a result of their injuries, either during treatment or from a deliberate decision to end their lives.
CPG started monitoring these injuries in November 2024.
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