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
This week, London Underground passengers will be confronted with escalator posters that reveal the lethal reality faced by horses who are forced to compete at the annual Grand National Meeting.
Posted 04 Apr 2017
Last year’s Aintree Grand National Meeting (2016) was the most deadly this century. Six horses died as a result of the three days of racing. Despite the authorities stating the race itself is getting safer,...
Posted 30 Mar 2017
For those horrified by the horse deaths at the 2017 Cheltenham Festival, please make a pledge to help with Animal Aid's Horse Racing Awareness Week, which takes place in the days leading up to the...
Posted 22 Mar 2017
Cheltenham’s infamous racecourse claimed the lives of two more horses at this year’s Festival. On this third day of racing, eight-year-old Toe The Line (IRE) was put down after breaking her leg in the 4.50pm...
Posted 16 Mar 2017
After disturbing scenes of horse suffering on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival, day two claimed a victim in the first race of the afternoon when 5-year-old gelding Consul De Thaix broke his neck...
Posted 15 Mar 2017