Animal Aid launches Horse Race DeathWatch
National campaign group Animal Aid this week launches Race Horse DeathWatch, a web-based initiative that will make public every on-course Thoroughbred fatality.
Posted 04 Apr 2007
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BBC apologises for silencing horse racing industry critic
The BBC has formally apologised to Animal Aid more than a year after Radio 4’s Today programme was pressured by the Jockey Club (JC) into dropping a spokesman for the campaign group who had been...
Posted 22 Mar 2007
Racing in crisis as four horses killed in one day’s racing at Wincanton
Racing is facing a crisis with seven horses known to have died on racecourses in just one week. The latest four victims all perished on Monday at Wincanton, Somerset.
Posted 20 Mar 2007
Three more horses killed on Cheltenham’s notorious racecourse
The notorious Cheltenham racecourse claimed three more equine victims this weekend, with the deaths of Ol' Man River, Buailtes And Fadas, and War General.
Posted 13 Nov 2006
Exposed! Racing industry’s ‘systematic horse exploitation, injury and destruction’
The chase after vast financial rewards by the global horse racing industry's dominant forces has led to over-production of a swift but physically weak Thoroughbred, according to a major new report, 'Bred To Death', published...
Posted 29 Sep 2006
Animal Aid’s Commons challenge to race industry
Animal Aid's Director, Andrew Tyler, and its Horseracing Consultant, Dene Stansall, took the issue of the scandalously high levels of equine death and injury to the House of Commons last night when it debated the...
Posted 14 Jun 2006
Horse race industry in turmoil after Derby death
The horse racing industry is in turmoil after the death of a top horse in Saturday's Epsom Derby, the world's premier flat race.
Posted 05 Jun 2006
Tyneandthyneagain becomes 32nd Aintree victim in a decade of carnage
The notorious Grand National claimed yet another victim when Tyneandthyneagain perished after a fall at the first fence.
Posted 08 Apr 2006
Should the Grand National be axed for being too cruel?
From The Guardian (05/04/06): With thirty horses having died at Aintree since 1997, is it time the National was scrapped for being too cruel? Andrew Tyler, Director of Animal Aid, says yes. Peter Webbon, Chief Executive...
Posted 05 Apr 2006
Does tinkering with bloodline increase equine mortality rate?
From The Guardian (21/03/06):
Posted 22 Mar 2006