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1. Stop Rodeo and Horse Racing Abuse Today 
Behind the romanticized facade of thoroughbred horse racing is a world of injuries, drug abuse, gruesome breakdowns, and slaughter. They weigh at least 1,000 pounds, have legs that are supported by ankles the size of a human’s, and are forced to run around dirt tracks at speeds of more than 30 miles per hour while carrying people on their backs.
Between 700 and 800 racehorses are injured and die every year, with a national average of about two breakdowns for every 1,000 starts.
What can you do?
Please sign this petition!
2. Stop the Grand National Horse racing
We are the voices that CAN be heard, ours voices cannot be silenced, these horses depend on us, we may be the last chance they have!
Please help.
3. Improve conditions of racehorses in the horse racing industry
Behind the glamour, flashing lights, cheers, and money, the horses in the racing industry are being abused through harsh track conditions, performance-enchancing drugs, being raced to soon in their lives, and being sent to slaughter when their use is no longer needed.
When signing this, you will support and be a part of the letters I will send a letter including this petition to local horse racing officials in the midatlantic region to bring awareness and help improve the conditions these horses have to endure.
There is more power in larger numbers. Thank you!
4. Stop betting shops taking over our high streets
The 2005 Gambling Act gives local authorities very limited powers to refuse Gambling Licenses and Planning Permission to large betting chains. When councils and local communities try to prevent new betting shops opening, companies appeal at great cost to the local authority – at a time when cuts to their funding make this impossible. The industry is prepared to bankrupt councils to get an even greater hold on our high streets.
Bookmakers are currently targeting the poorer areas in our cities and towns. In some cases there are as many as 12 or 13 in one street. In mad competition with each other, they bid for any freeholds available in the certain knowledge they will be granted licenses. Often they are clustered together and are the cause of antisocial behaviour and theft, making parts of a street a no-go area. They take advantage of people in desperate financial circumstances and are encouraging gambling addiction in those who can least afford it, threatening the futures of our communities' children.
We are calling on the government to change the Act and give local communities a greater say over their high streets. There should be a separate planning class for betting shops to give councils and residents the power to determine their location and overall numbers. Presently councils cannot deny an application on the basis of the number already open in their area.
John Penrose MP at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is on record as saying he isn't convinced the law needs changing because he's only heard a complaint from one London Borough (Hackney).
Therefore the aim of this petition is to show the government that it is not just a problem in the poorer parts of London, but is prevalent across the country, especially in the outskirts of our major towns and cities.
It is not a petition against betting, it's about changing the law to enable communities to combat the proliferation of betting establishments.
It is also completely independent and aims to be cross-party. In London, the only voices to be heard so far are from Diane Abbott MP for Hackney, David Lammy MP for Tottenham, and Ken Livingstone MP for Brent East (in his campaign for Mayor of London). If your council or MP has it on their agenda let us know, or email them this petition and put it on their agenda.
Please help bring this to national and media (and therefore government) attention by signing the petition and passing it on to friends and relatives in other parts of the UK.
LOCAL PETITION
This national petition was started in Deptford, part of the London borough of Lewisham, where both Labour MP and council have not been particularly vocal about the problem of betting shops since 2009 when Lewisham Council was the lead authority on a proposal submitted to central government as a suggested amendment to the Sustainable Communities Act that would allow councils to have the power to cap the number of bookmakers in a certain area.
We're still waiting.
If you live in the Deptford area, please see our sister petition against the licensing of the eighth betting shop in Deptford High Street. Go to:
www.gopetition.com/petition/42164.html
5. Please sign if you believe Zenyatta should be Horse of the Year
It's disappointing to hear that Blame should be Horse of the Year since he won the Classic, because Zenyatta didn't get Horse of the Year when she won the Classic last year as well as being the first female to win it.
Zenyatta's spectacular 19 wins in a row before losing her first race should make her Horse of the Year. She was dead last in the track, caught up, ran with the boys and lost only by a nose short. Sorry, but Blame didn't bring in the crowd at Churchill Downs, Zenyatta did. The media and security coverage of her shows she's #1.
She's #1, because people have taken notice of her extraordinary 19 wins. She's extra special, because she loves to pose and dance for the camera.
Zenyatta for Horse of the Year!
6. Say "No" to abuse of Retired Racehorses in Barbados
Excerpt from news article Barbados Today by Julia Rawlins-Bentham. 31/05/2010
Used, beaten, abused or simply left to die. That's the sum of the fate of some popular race horses across Barbados after they are retired from the track.
The latest horse to suffer such a fate was Heaven on Earth which was put to sleep at the Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) two weeks ago.
Chief Inspector Wayne Norville said that Heaven on Earth was among 21 horses found in deplorable conditions across the country within the last year, and is calling on authorities and horse owners to put measures in place to stamp on the growing trend.
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7. 'Track to Trail': Stop the slaughter of failed and retired race horses!
In Australia, approximately 40,000 horses are slaughtered each year for both human (overseas) and pet consumption, fertiliser and hide. Some sources actually put the figure at closer to 100,000. Of these horses it is estimated that a massive 60% are failed/retired race horses and broodmares (just used for breeding).
A lot of these horses are aged between 2 and 7 years old, a long way from their 25-30 year life expectancy. To make matters worse, instead of costing the owner the $100 to humanly put the horse down or keeping the horse until a suitable home can be found, the owner actually makes, on average, $450 profit on each horse sold to be slaughtered.
(Sources: http://www.optimail.com.au/berrime/slaughter.htm; http://www.optimail.com.au/berrime/slaughter.htm; By Geraldine Chapman www.HorsePoint.com.au)
Once the horse has been sold, the horse can spend days and weeks being trucked around or held in tiny holding pens with other horses. They are exposed to extreme heat and cold, with minimal water and barely any food. Due to hunger, and stress, the horses start to fight over things such as manure, wood railings and bits of rubbish just to keep their digestive systems working (horses are designed to eat up to 22 hours a day). To a horse, this is torture.
(Sources: http://www.optimail.com.au/berrime/slaughter.htm; http://www.optimail.com.au/berrime/slaughter.htm; By Geraldine Chapman www.HorsePoint.com.au)
A lot of these horses are healthy, safe and useful horses that could be re trained and re homed to be used in events, trail and pleasure riding.
Each year Australians spend millions of dollars betting on horses like the ones sold to be slaughtered. This money makes millions of dollars profit for the horse and harness racing industry (including gambling organisations).
It is our vision that a relative percentage of this profit be negotiated and donated to the temporary and long term care; and if possible the re training and re homing of horses not suitable or no longer useful for racing.
http://www.facebook.com/TracktoTrail (Facebook)
http://www.tracktotrail.org (website)
In Warrnambool in the last two days, three horses died in jumps races and seven have died or been put down due to accidents in steeple chase races in the last two weeks in Australia alone.
The board is not reviewing the safety of jumps racing until the end of the racing season but how many more horses will have died by then!!!!!
URGENT - Please contact the City Council to voice your oppositon to the destruction of Hollywood Park racetrack.
Inglewood City Hall
One Manchester Avenue, Inglewood, 90301
(310) 412-5320
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Hollywood Park is an important historic landmark in Inglewood, California. It is without question, the Crown Jewel of the city. Founded by Jack Warner (of Warner Bros. fame) in 1938, it has provided the the local economy with good, union jobs, given the City of Inglewood and State of California millions of dollars in tax revenue and given the community a great sense of pride.
Hollywood Park is part of the $5 billion horse industry of the State of California. Not only is saving Hollywood Park important for preserving history, saving it will preserve very good income to the local economy and the State. In addition, by preserving Hollywood Park as a horse racing and training facility, the urban sprawl which would result from it's destruction would be prevented.
For more detailed information please see www.savehollywoodpark.com
10. Let's Make Melbourne Cup Day a National Holiday
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major annual thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is for three-year-olds and over, and covers a distance of 3,200 metres.
It is generally regarded as the most prestigious "two-mile" handicap in the world. The event is held on the first Tuesday in November by the Victoria Racing Club, on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne.
This day was traditionally only a public holiday within metropolitan Melbourne, but is now also observed as a holiday in the ACT.
Petition Managed by the Australian Thoroughbred Racing Group
11. Stop Horse and Greyhound Racing in USA
STOP HORSE AND GREYHOUND RACING!!! IT IS MINDLESS ANIMAL ABUSE!!!!!
If you wish to stop the bloodsport of greyhound and horse racing, please sign my petition!