Racing identities Gai Waterhouse, Bart Cummings and Kerrin McEvoy have joined the fight to stop land, water and agricultural industries being destroyed by coal mining in the Hunter Valley region.



Coal mines are on the verge of destroying The Hunter Valley which is home to a large amount of Australia's horse breeding facilities with stats suggesting upwards of 90% of the Inglis Easter Yearling sales crops coming from the region.



To put this in perspective of a racing fan, the entire Golden Slipper field run on Saturday was comprised of horses sired from The Hunter Valley.



A four minute video was produced to help fight the coal mines. View it here:







You can help join the fight by liking their Facebook Page or tweeting with the following has tags #savethehuntervalley #protectourindustries #longtermregret

Social media is definitely getting behind the campaign, we will highlight some of the tweets in support below.

Horses+wine = all that matters RT @Globalgallop Save the Hunter Valley http://t.co/yD8rdDhJ5k … Important for all racing enthusiast to view. — Adam Blencowe (@NoverreMan) April 9, 2014

Save The Hunter Valley http://t.co/mHtsfqkjwv via @youtube,Hunter is under threat of extinction as mines progress, Liverpool Plains next? — Lord Breeza (@timduddy) April 9, 2014