Champion jumps jockey Brett Scott says Racing Victoria Limited's decision to end jumps racing after 2010 would affect his aspirations to ride overseas.

He said if there was no jumps racing in Australia he wouldn't be licensed.

"So how am I going to ride overseas?" he asked.

"I don't know what I'll do to be honest. I've always been going to take a trainer's licence out. It's just a matter of when.

"But I still want to ride overseas in New Zealand, Japan or England.

"The Australian participation in the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan will stop too," Scott added of the world's richest steeplechase which he won three times on the Eric Musgrove-trained Karasi.

Scott described the decision as "disgraceful" for the state's jumps jockeys who number around 30.

"I honestly thought it would go on. It wasn't unanimous I know that. There were a couple of people kicking up for jumps racing but unfortunately the majority went against it," he said.

"It's disappointing for everyone."

Scott, who also works as stable foreman for top New Zealand trainer John Wheeler at his satellite stable at Mornington, said it would continue to support the two-day Oakbank carnival in South Australian at Easter.

But with no jumps racing at Warrnambool after 2010 it would no longer send horses there.

"I honestly can't see how the Warrnambool carnival can survive as three days of flat racing," he said.

Successful jumps trainer Chris Hyland said the uncertainty over jumps racing over the past two or three years had forced him to cut his jumping numbers down to just two in a team of 18 horses in work.

"I'm just glad we planned for it a couple of years ago," he said.

"It's a bit sad because I'm a passionate jumping person but it has been coming for a while."

When Hyland was leading jumps trainer two years back his horses won $700,000 in prizemoney but last year he won just one jumps race.

"You'd hardly be enthused bringing a horse in for one season because if something goes wrong they might just pull the pin on it," he said.

One of Hyland's jumpers is Toulouse Lautrec who could continue to race here in staying races on the flat if he doesn't go overseas to jump.

Flat trainer Rod Douglas described the decision as a joke.

"It's a joke. It doesn't affect me, but it affects a lot of people," he said.