Snares – does your MP support the ban?
In February, Ruth Jones MP tabled a new Early Day Motion (EDM), calling on the government to implement its promised ban on snares as soon as possible.
Posted 20 Mar 2025
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Corbetts Cross killed at Cheltenham Gold Cup – this cruelty must end now
Corbetts Cross (IRE) was killed at the Gold Cup chase at Cheltenham this afternoon - taking the death toll of the Cheltenham Festival up to 78 horses lives lost since 2000.
Posted 14 Mar 2025
Springwell Bay killed at The Cheltenham Festival – taking the death toll of this brutal event up to 77 horses since 2000
Animal Aid is heartbroken and disgusted that yet another horse has been killed at The Cheltenham Festival. Springwell Bay was killed this afternoon after falling at a fence - and became the 77th victim of...
Posted 13 Mar 2025
Notorious killer of race horses, the Cheltenham Festival, starts today!
Today is the first day of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival – a four-day event which has claimed the lives of 76 race horses since 2000.  
Posted 11 Mar 2025
598 horses from the racing industry were sent to slaughter in England in 2024
The Cheltenham Festival takes place between 11th-14th March - and will be surrounded by the inevitable ‘welfare propaganda’ pushed by the racing industry. We know this to be nothing more than empty marketing rhetoric, peddled...
Posted 06 Mar 2025
557 abuses of whip regulations in 2024 – it’s time to ban the whip in horse racing!
It is shocking that in 2024, there were  557 breaches of whip regulations. Currently, the whip may be used six times in a flat race and seven times in a jump race. These limits are arbitrary...
Posted 05 Mar 2025
214 race horses killed in 2024 – a 21.6% increase in deaths from the previous year
It is horrifying that in 2024, 214 horses were killed as a result of racing on British racecourses. Horses died from excruciating injury including broken legs, necks, or heart attacks. Despite a new marketing campaign...
Posted 04 Mar 2025
The Cheltenham Festival starts next week – here’s why it should be banned!
A week tomorrow heralds the beginning of the four-day Cheltenham Festival, an event which has taken the lives of 76 horses since 2000. It is hard to imagine any human-sport  with such a disturbing –...
Posted 03 Mar 2025
Animal Aid holds peaceful demo calling on the public to “listen” to the Terror on Our Tables
As part of our farming campaign’s Week of Action, Animal Aid were in London yesterday talking to the public about the routine suffering of cows within the dairy industry.
Posted 25 Feb 2025
Wales announces plans to be the first UK nation to ban greyhound racing!
In incredible news, Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies has just announced plans to ban greyhound racing ‘as soon as practicably possible’. Wales will be the first UK nation to ban this cruel excuse for a...
Posted 18 Feb 2025
