After the death of race horse Tea In Transvaal was captured on camera and made public by Devon Animal Save in June, the group has again witnessed another shocking death at Newton Abbot Racecourse just...
Posted 01 Aug 2017
Animal Aid has called for an urgent amendment to the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) Rules of Racing in order to ban the whip for any reason other than safety. If the regulatory body refuses, it...
Posted 14 Jul 2017
In the space of just three recent meetings, two horses have died in flat races at Chepstow Racecourse. Four others have died there in jump races earlier in the year, bringing the total to six...
Posted 07 Jul 2017
The plans have been rejected outright and horse racing on Oxford Street will not go ahead.
Posted 29 Jun 2017
26 June: Animal Aid to protest at the gates of the racecourse
Posted 20 Jun 2017
The racing industry’s welfare regulator, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), despite a prior warning from a leading trainer¹, failed to make simple changes to Starting Stall procedures that could have prevented five-year-old mare, Just Marion,...
Posted 15 Jun 2017
Members of Devon Animal Save will hold a memorial vigil this Friday (16 June) in order to draw attention to the issue of injuries and deaths in horse racing. The campaigners will be dressed in...
Posted 13 Jun 2017
A video showing the final moments of a race horse called Tea In Transvaal (IRE), has been released by local animal rights group, Devon Animal Save.
Posted 06 Jun 2017
With 76 race horses killed racing this year so far¹, it would be expected that the regulator, the British Horseracing Authority, would be doing all it could to prevent horses from being raced too frequently...
Posted 31 May 2017
As the 2017 Grand National Meeting came to an end, many of the horses who raced at Aintree would have returned to their stables shaken and sore, with a number carrying injuries from the melee...
Posted 10 Apr 2017