One hundred horses raced to death since Cheltenham Festival
The death of two horses at Carlisle on 12 November, brings to 100 the total number of Thoroughbreds killed on British racecourses since the Cheltenham Festival in March.
Posted 15 Nov 2007
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Horse abattoir press preview
Animal Aid today (Thursday, September 20) releases footage secretly filmed in an English abattoir. It shows discarded children’s riding ponies and unprofitable race horses being shot in the head with a rifle and then butchered...
Posted 20 Sep 2007
Secretly filmed in an English abattoir… healthy horses and ponies butchered for meat exports
Animal Aid today (Thursday, September 20) releases footage secretly filmed in an English abattoir. It shows discarded children’s riding ponies and unprofitable race horses being shot in the head with a rifle and then butchered...
Posted 20 Sep 2007
Animal Aid background notes on pet horses and ponies
The British Equestrian Trade Association (BETA) http://www.beta-uk.org/ conducted the National Equine Survey, the results of which were published in 2006.
Posted 18 Sep 2007
Animal Aid background notes on horse slaughter
The Fate of Horses: Horses may end their days at a UK abattoir for a number of reasons – sickness, old age, they prove too costly, or (for race horses) they are deemed inadequate to...
Posted 18 Sep 2007
Horse slaughter in an English abattoir
Animal Aid filmed covertly at Potter’s abattoir, Taunton, during August 2007.
Posted 18 Aug 2007
Exposed! Race horse vivisection
A new report, published this week by Animal Aid, describes a series of painful and often lethal laboratory experiments conducted on race horses, mountain ponies and other equines. Many of the experiments are directly, or...
Posted 16 May 2007
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
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