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🐴 Correcting thoroughbred & racing industry misconceptions with facts 🩷 Showcasing love for the horse 🗣️ Educate the masses #kickupforracing
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined October 2022
💡🏇🏻I still get a lot of questions about my fall, the injuries and the recovery so I feel like it’s best to open it up to questions here so I can share the path I have been on to this point. Feel free to shoot me any questions & I will answer as best I can
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We’re separating fact from fiction. Check out @KickUpForRacing, a fact-led resource for all your Thoroughbred questions, then get to your local National Thoroughbred Week event to see it with your own eyes. We have locations across Australia & NZ - find your nearest online.
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The early birds got it 🐛 the Flemington Racecourse Tour is fully booked! Other Victorian events are still available, but you better be quick. National Thoroughbred Week, 20-24 Nov. #nationaltbweek
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LISTEN | Vicky Leonard joined @ghall27 to discuss the work herself and @KickUpForRacing do to spread the positive messages in racing. https://t.co/NeBYqyUtuE
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The Kick team are exhausted from a huge Cup responding to tens of thousands of misinformation posts and comments across social platforms over the last week. So it was great for our spirits to get this lovely voice memo reminding us why it’s so needed ☺️
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If you have any family, friends, neighbours or colleagues who are curious about horse racing, or asked you a question about the Melbourne Cup, make sure you bring them along to a local event! A lot of passionate people have poured thousands of hours into getting National
The countdown has begun 🥳 2 weeks until the inaugural National Thoroughbred Week kicks off at over 80 locations across Australia & NZ. Our hosts are excited to welcome you to meet the horses & the people behind the Thoroughbred world. Drop a 🐎 below if you’re joining us.
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The countdown has begun 🥳 2 weeks until the inaugural National Thoroughbred Week kicks off at over 80 locations across Australia & NZ. Our hosts are excited to welcome you to meet the horses & the people behind the Thoroughbred world. Drop a 🐎 below if you’re joining us.
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Not sure that counts as another language 😂 Got a better one? Drop it below - or maybe pass it along at National TB Week 😉
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Experience thoroughbred excellence with an exclusive guided tour of one of Australia’s leading operations, @ArrowfieldStud. This is a rare opportunity to discover the passion, expertise & care that defines Arrowfield… & of course, meet a foal or two 🐴 #nationaltbweek
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@Mattunchained @KickUpForRacing Vicky is measured in her responses, factual, and acknowledges that racing may not be for all. No doubt it’s arduous, tiring and frustrating, but it’s needed and warranted.🙌
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@Mattunchained @KickUpForRacing Industry award winner for sure. @KickUpForRacing I’ve pushed numerous people to her website, friends and foe alike. She has done more for the racing industry than anyone else in the realm of public perception than ever before. Not just lately but ever before. Industry leader!
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One of the great advantages of having our farm so close to our Wyong base is that horses like Oceanfront, who raced at Randwick yesterday, can spend a few days at the farm to stretch their legs and have some easy days before their next race.
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Have a listen to Natalie - who had questions about horse racing, so went and worked as a strapper! We love these stories ☺️⭐️
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ABR is proud to be part of National Thoroughbred Week @NationalTBWeek alongside @RacingSA and @KickUpForRacing , where we are opening the gates at Angaston Park (formerly Lindsay Park) for an exclusive tour. Join us on Friday, 21st November from 8am for a guided look behind the
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Tony McEvoy provided an update on Half Yours after his Melbourne Cup triumph.
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@KickUpForRacing - aka Vicky Leonard - not as omnipresent as Mr Blogger but her polite, fact-based defence of racing to online critics has been fantastic this spring. Never loses her cool, accepts detractors have right to express themselves. She is the perfect racing “explainer”
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Isn't it interesting how we form our belief systems/moral compasses, and allow them to be shaped by others. The recent narrative from the once-a-year, extremist anti-racing minority groups was that 174 registered racehorses lost their lives in Australia this year, from accidents
3AW's Tom Elliott responds to #NupToTheCup protestors at Flemington: "Every day we kills thousands of cattle and sheep and pigs. If you're going to protest against animals dying... surely you'd go and stand in front of an abattoir every day of the week" It’s always interesting
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Still a few more fabricated posts to correct before the “animal welfare” activists disappear for another 363 days… (while we carry on actually caring for horses!). The CPR Deathwatch list of “175 racing deaths” contains: • Several horses that are still alive • Dozens that
DISGRACE THAT STOPS A NATION 🛑 175 dead horses. According to the annual DeathWatch report from @hrseracingkills, released last Tuesday, one horse died on average every two days during the 2024/2025 racing season. 85 horses died following gruesome and painful injuries to their
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