スポーツ · 競走馬の死亡ビクトリア州の競走馬死亡をめぐる論争に必要なのは、数字だけでなく個体名だ執筆 2026年10月26日 22:54 UTC視聴文字起こし0:07O'Hope Wins was euthanized after falling in the Caulfield Cup.0:10Her death brings fresh scrutiny to how racing counts its losses, while Victorian0:13taxpayers spend millions supporting the industry.0:16Which horses belong in the death toll, and will the regulator release the names0:19needed to check it?0:20The Coalition for the Protection of Race Horses counts forty-eight Victorian deaths0:24linked to racing between August20205 , and July2026.0:28Racing Victoria, which regulates thoroughbred racing in the state, says there were0:32twenty-two racing fatalities.0:34It calls the larger tally misleading, if not mischievous.0:37The coalition's death watch report two thousand and twenty-six puts Victoria above0:41every other state for the first time.0:42But calling a state the deadliest can suggest more than these figures show.0:46A death count alone doesn't tell an owner how likely an individual horse is to die.0:50New South Wales recorded the most deaths in the previous twelve death watch reports.0:54It runs about one zero more races each year than Victoria.0:57Comparing the state's fatality rates would require matching what each count includes1:00and how many horses or starts it covers.1:02The national figures describe a broader welfare problem.1:05The coalition includes deaths it links to the industry even when a horse dies away1:09from a race course.1:10The coalition attributes at least one hundred and sixty deaths nationally to the1:14racing industry in the two thousand and twenty-five-26 season.1:17It attributes more than fifty to front limb injuries.1:20General manager Heller Hardson says the minimum reflects deaths the group could1:24confirm, with others difficult to track.1:26Erhardson says the public can't see what happens during trials and training on1:29private properties.1:31The coalition also says nearly seventy percent of the horses began racing or1:34trialing at two.1:35It argues they were probably still growing.1:37That history alone doesn't show that starting young caused their deaths.1:41Racing Victoria points to horses that died from colic and paddock accidents.1:45It also identifies three killed in a road accident.1:47Horses whose last races were ten, twelve, and seventeen years earlier, and one that1:52died after a suspected stingray attack.1:54Those examples explain its objection to the coalition's wider definition.1:57Racing Victoria hasn't shown how every horse was classified against its own total.2:01A death away from the track can still follow a racing injury, which is why the2:04coalition argues for a wider register.2:06Erhardson says the coalition includes fifteen horses that died in the days after2:10racing injuries and nine that died from starvation.2:13She says those horses deserve recognition too.2:15Those subtotals weren't clearly identified as Victorian only, so they can't explain2:19the difference between forty-eight and twenty-two.2:22Any overlap would also need checking before those figures could be combined.2:25The coalition supplied its Victorian horse list and asked Racing Victoria for2:29equivalent transparency.2:30Racing Victoria said it couldn't supply a list of horse names.2:34Two more Victorian horses died after O'Hope wins.2:36A two-year Old Philly collapsed and died on track at Ballaret.2:40A six-year Old Gelding was euthanized after an injury in Alexandra.2:44Erhardson places them among twelve Victorian racehorse deaths over the preceding2:47nine weeks.2:48An October twenty coalition statement had counted ten deaths from racing injuries2:52over eight weeks.2:53The later figure covers a later, longer window.2:56These spring deaths also come after the annual tally closed in July, so they must be2:59kept separate from that season's figures.3:01Stewards cleared the jockeys involved in the Caulfield Cup fall.3:04They described OHOP wins' reason for euthanasia as a serious racing injury.3:08The online race replay has been edited to remove the fall involving OHOP wins and3:12Half Yours.3:13Erhardson says a high-profile race brought attention to deaths that happen3:16throughout racing.3:17She also says nearly all Victorian deaths receive that same unspecified injury3:21description in Steward's reports and criticizes the removal of incident footage.3:25Her wider criticism goes beyond the confirmed edit to this replay.3:28Racing Victoria says it has maintained a ninety-nine point nine five percent safety3:32record over the past decade.3:34It says Victoria averages more than forty zero thoroughbred starters annually.3:38It hasn't explained the calculation or how that percentage fits the coalition's3:42broader death categories.3:43Starters also don't necessarily represent distinct horses.3:46Racing Victoria says the industry generates five point five billion Australian3:50dollars a year in economic activity and supports nearly thirty-four zero full time3:55equivalent jobs.3:56Those are the regulators' estimates.3:58Full time equivalents measure the amount of work rather than the number of4:01individual workers.4:03The Victorian government has spent seventy-two million Australian dollars through4:06its racing industry fund over four years.4:08Labor promises to increase that figure to eighty million if re-elected in November.4:13A government spokesperson says it's working with Racing Victoria to maintain the4:16highest animal welfare standards.4:18Racing Victoria accuses groups such as the Coalition of trying to shut racing down,4:22threatening jobs and a lawful social activity.4:25The coalition's Nup to the Cup campaign continues through the spring racing4:28carnival, including the following week's Melbourne Cup.4:31Earhardson wants racing bodies to publish death records themselves.4:34The public still has two competing totals without a shared horse.4:38By horse register, explaining where they agree or differ.4:40Racing Victoria says it can't supply the names 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