{"id":29806,"date":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/minister-stands-by-comments-following-jumps-racing-death\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"minister-stands-by-comments-following-jumps-racing-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/minister-stands-by-comments-following-jumps-racing-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister stands by comments following jumps racing death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tourism and racing minister Leon Bignell is standing by his decision to label jumps racing \u2018barbaric\u2019 after a horse died at Oakbank on the weekend.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was my reaction,\u201d Mr Bignell told FIVEAA\u2019s David and Will on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 2017 and we\u2019ve got horses being put over massive obstacles and coming down and then on dying. It just doesn\u2019t sit well with me in this era, that we still do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the trainers and the owners don\u2019t want their horses to die, I know they love their horses, but if this is a form of entertainment in 2017, is it the right thing to do?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s based on a tradition that goes back hundreds of years ago when maybe we weren\u2019t as sensitive to how people should treat animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/eddie-betts-reveals-the-impact-of-race-disgrace-on-his-family\">BETTS REVEALS IMPACT ON HIS FAMILY OF RACE DISGRACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/leigh-matthews-declares-crows-star-one-of-the-best\"><strong>LEIGH MATTHEWS RANKS ADELAIDE CROW AS ONE OF THE BEST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism and racing minister Leon Bignell is standing by his decision to label jumps racing \u2018barbaric\u2019 after a horse died at Oakbank on the weekend. David and Will podcast on iTunes here. \u201cThat was my reaction,\u201d Mr Bignell told FIVEAA\u2019s David and Will on Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s 2017 and we\u2019ve got horses being put over massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister stands by comments following jumps racing death - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/minister-stands-by-comments-following-jumps-racing-death\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister stands by comments following jumps racing death\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tourism and racing minister Leon Bignell is standing by his decision to label jumps racing \u2018barbaric\u2019 after a horse died at Oakbank on the weekend. 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