Horse death prompts call to revisit steeplechase review

The RSPCA says there needs to be a re-examination of a review completed three years ago which looked at steeplechasing and hurdling in horse races.

Yesterday, a horse in the Grand Annual at Warrnambool badly injured a leg while trying to clear the last obstacle in the race and had to be put down.
The RSPCA's Hugh Wirth says the review committee should be reconvened to see if the recommendations that were made have happened.
"This covered the training of horses, jockeys and more particularly the obstacles and how they were built," he said.
"Now the traditionalists of course didn't like our recommendations on the construction of hurdles and or steeples, but there is anecdotal evidence that this has made a huge difference."