Are You Offended By Midget Cup? Post by: Triple M Sport 13 October, 2009 - 10:45 AM

Is this sport? Not according to Victorian racing minister Rob Hulls, who has slammed a piggy-back race involving little people at Sunday's Cranbourne Cup meeting.

Mr. Hulls described the race, dubbed the 'Midget's Cup', in the home straight and in front of thousand of Cup enthusiasts as doing nothing to promote the racing industry.

Three punters from the crowd piggy-backed some short-statured riders dressed in racing colours, down the straight for about 50 metres.

One dwarf fell and crashed head first into the turf, but was uninjured.

Is this another case of political corectness gone mad or simply harmless fun at a country race meeting?

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• Timmy A says

  You've got to be kidding! What's next? Midget throwing at the baseball?

  Posted Tuesday 13 October, 2009 12:19 PM
• Blind Freddy says

  After Hey Hey's racist shame, even I can see this is a bad move.

  Posted Tuesday 13 October, 2009 12:20 PM
• Ashleigh says

  this is an over reaction i was there along the fence on a typical october day and it was just for laughs i couldnt stop laughing it was hillarious!!! not because they were little just because the day started to go down hill with some rain and fans wanted entertainment i thought it was a great idea if the dwarfs had nothing against it why should anyone else if the dwarfs in the race didnt like the idea im sure they wouldnt have been in it. this little race hurt no body (maybe apart from the headfirst face plant) they are the same as everybody else...are we going to soook if we did it with kids... NO. so i dont see what all the fuss is about.

  Posted Tuesday 13 October, 2009 12:27 PM
• rick says

  that was the funniest thing i've seen all day. the midgets were willing participants and they clearly enjoyed themselves. People need to get off the PC bandwagon and enjoy life instead of constantly finding something to whinge about.

  Posted Tuesday 13 October, 2009 12:31 PM
• Ace says

  Are people offended at seeing dwarfs on TV, enjoying themselves or are they just offended on behalf on smaller stature people in general? Clearly Mr Hull does not want smaller stature people involved in entertainment on his patch (curious, given that this patch includes a lot of jockeys), presumably because he believes they pay a small return on the investment. To go on about it publicly seems a bit off, but then he is a politician. Personally, I have never seen a problem with people with dwarfism doing any kind of job they want to do, even if it's in entertainment. Good on them.

  Posted Wednesday 14 October, 2009 1:52 AM
• drew betar says

  if it was so offensive then why was there dwarf jockeys partaking to start with ?

  no one forced them too

  this is just typical of today society , a bunch of do gooder political correct nazis

  Posted Wednesday 14 October, 2009 10:04 PM