跳马比赛是纯种赛马的一种形式,涉及障碍和尖塔,通常距离更长,与平坦的赛车相比,重量更重,它不包含障碍。在澳大利亚,跳跃赛车只在维多利亚进行,八个州和地区之一。由于死亡风险较高,跳跃比赛的继续存在争议,马摔倒和受伤,与平板赛车相比。虽然业界已采取措施改善骑手和马匹的安全,死亡率,自2012年至2014年比赛季节以来,澳大利亚没有集体报道参加跳跃比赛的马匹跌倒和受伤。虽然关于个别马匹死亡的信息,跌倒和受伤由维多利亚赛车在管家报告中发表,数据不聚合,因此不能轻易用于评估趋势或评估行业引入的安全措施的有效性。这项研究的目的是确定死亡人数,在2022年和2023年的维多利亚州参加跨栏和跳栏比赛的马匹的摔倒率和受伤率纯种跳马比赛季节与在同一场比赛中参加平跑比赛的马匹相比。马匹死亡数据,跌倒和受伤是从已发布的维多利亚赛车比赛结果和管家\'2022年和2023年在维多利亚举行的38次跳台比赛中举行的跳台比赛(n=150)和相应的平台比赛(n=157)的报告中提取的。总的来说,马匹死亡,在研究期间,与平坦比赛相比,跳跃比赛中跌倒和受伤的发生率更高。跳跃比赛中的马匹死亡率为每1000次比赛3.3次,在平地比赛中没有死亡。跨栏比赛中的马摔倒率是每1000场比赛24场,在跳栏比赛中每1000场比赛41.6场,与之前在2012年至2014年季节报告的费率相当。在平坦的比赛中没有跌倒。在跳跃比赛中,马匹受伤的发生率为每1000次起跑68.9,而在平坦比赛中,马匹受伤的发生率为每1000次起跑18.8。在跨栏和跳栏比赛中,马伤后需要兽医许可的可能性是5.4倍(OR5.4,95%CI2.8-10.2)和7.2倍(OR7.2,95%CI3.3-15.6),分别,与平跑相比。跨栏和跳栏比赛的创伤风险增加4倍(分别为OR4.8,95%CI1.7-13.3和OR4.1,95%CI1.2-13.4),而跛行的风险增加2.5倍在跨栏比赛(OR2.5,95%CI1.2-5.2)和5.1倍在跳栏比赛(OR5.1,95%CI2.3-11.5),与平跑相比。这些发现支持了对参与跳跃比赛的马匹的福利以及需要采取进一步的安全措施来降低这些风险的担忧。
Jumps racing is a form of
Thoroughbred horse racing that involves hurdles and steeples and typically longer distances, and heavier weights compared with flat racing, which does not incorporate obstacles. In Australia, jumps racing is carried out only in Victoria, one of eight states and territories. The continuation of jumps racing is contentious due to the higher risk of fatalities, falls and injuries for horses, compared with flat racing. While measures have been introduced by the industry to improve the safety of riders and horses, the rates of fatalities, falls and injuries in horses participating in jumps races have not been collectively reported in Australia since the 2012 to 2014 race seasons. Although information on individual horse fatalities, falls and injuries is published by Racing Victoria in Stewards\' Reports, the data are not aggregated, and so cannot readily be used to assess trends or evaluate the efficacy of safety measures introduced by the industry. The aim of this study was to determine the fatality, fall and injury rates for horses participating in hurdle and steeplechase races in Victoria in the 2022 and 2023
Thoroughbred horse jumps racing seasons compared with horses participating in flat races at the same race meets. Data on horse fatalities, falls and injuries were extracted from the published Racing Victoria race results and Stewards\' Reports for the jumps races (n = 150) and corresponding flat races (n = 157) held at the 38 jumps race meets in Victoria in 2022 and 2023. Overall, horse fatalities, falls and injuries occurred at higher rates in jumps races compared with flat races during the study period. The rate of horse fatalities in jumps races was 3.3 per 1000 starts, with no fatalities in flat races. The rate of horse falls in hurdle races was 24 per 1000 starts and 41.6 per 1000 starts in steeplechase races, comparable with rates previously reported in the 2012 to 2014 seasons. There were no falls in flat races. Horse injuries occurred at a rate of 68.9 per 1000 starts in jumps races compared with 18.8 per 1000 starts in flat races. In hurdle and steeplechase races, veterinary clearance being required following horse injury was 5.4 times (OR 5.4, 95% CI 2.8-10.2) and 7.2 times (OR 7.2, 95% CI 3.3-15.6) more likely, respectively, compared with flat races. The risk of trauma was 4 times more likely in hurdle and steeplechase races (OR 4.8, 95% CI 1.7-13.3 and OR 4.1, 95% CI 1.2-13.4, respectively) and the risk of lameness was increased by 2.5 times in hurdles (OR 2.5, 95% CI 1.2-5.2) and 5.1 times in steeplechase races (OR 5.1, 95% CI 2.3-11.5), compared with flat races. These findings support concerns about the welfare of horses involved in jumps racing and of the need for further safety measures to reduce these risks.