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Letter of the Week

No laughing matter

 

It is incomprehensible that a race meeting, within 100km of Melbourne, should have to be abandoned because of a local kangaroo infestation.

While the sight of kangaroos bounding down the straight may have caused a smile or two at the Australia Day meeting at Hanging Rock, it is not a laughing matter.

Trainers, jockeys, owners, breeders and racegoers have a vested interest in seeing race meetings proceed without undue interference and in a safe manner.

Common sense suggests that the culling of this marsupial is very much in order.

Michael J Gamble
Belmont (Vic)
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