The Cheltenham Festival claimed another horse victim when 10-year-old Matuhi was destroyed after falling at the final fence in the 4pm race and suffered ‘an untreatable spinal injury’. He was attended by vets behind screens,...
Posted 14 Mar 2013
Four race horses were killed in one of the worst racing days in nearly a year. Three of the fatalities were at Catterick in North Yorkshire.
Posted 27 Feb 2013
Three horses died on British racecourses yesterday (4 February) – one broke his neck and two others their legs. One of the victims, Mujamead, desperate to keep contact with the rest of the runners, whom...
Posted 05 Feb 2013
The Review of the 2012 Grand National by the industry’s regulatory body, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), has utterly failed to address the core problems that have made the event such a prolific killer of...
Posted 20 Sep 2012
With the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) having this week completed an almost total retreat from the strengthened whip rules it introduced four months ago, the case for an outright whip ban is stronger than ever....
Posted 23 Feb 2012
Despite having forced racing’s regulator to twice dilute the new whipping rules introduced on 10 October 2011, jockeys’ representatives meet tomorrow (Friday, 20 January) with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) in what appears to be...
Posted 19 Jan 2012
Animal Aid supporter, Dr Steve Jones, shares his views on the use of the whip in racing
Posted 01 Dec 2011
To mark 100 years of Cheltenham's National Hunt Festival, the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum organised an exhibition, entitled Horse Parade, featuring 10 sculptures of horses by national artists.
Posted 17 Nov 2011
Thirty-one days into the new whip rules being implemented, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has for a second time succumbed to pressure from whip-happy and abusive jockeys.
Posted 11 Nov 2011
Following public outrage at the death of two horses in the 2011 Grand National, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) undertook a review of the event that was ‘designed to continue enhancing the safety and welfare...
Posted 02 Nov 2011