Joan Smith: what kind of sport lets its finest athletes die on the track?
From The Independent (19/03/06):
Posted 19 Mar 2006
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Aintree event claims another equine victim
The tradition of horse deaths at the notorious Grand National three-day meeting continued at this year's event when Lilium de Cotte died on Friday after suffering a massive haemorrhage while running in the 5.30 John...
Posted 11 Apr 2005
More than 370 horses raced to death every year
Jockey Club's courses are the deadliest
Posted 15 Mar 2005
Statement on the failure of Professor William ‘Twink’ Allen to obtain a Home Office licence to conduct cloning experiments on horses
Professor William 'Twink' Allen, who conducts invasive experiments on horses at the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association's Equine Fertility Unit based at Cambridge University, claims that the Home Office has bowed to pressure from animal rights protesters...
Posted 06 May 2004
Call for Grand National ban after another year of ‘carnage’
Statement from Animal Aid on the 2004 Grand National
Posted 03 Apr 2004
Racing debate – head to head with the lobbyist
Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler went head to head with leading horse racing lobbyist, Brough Scott, in The Guardian newspaper, Saturday April 3, 2004. Read their exchange below.
Posted 01 Apr 2004
A hiding to nothing
Major report shows that whipping horses reduces their chances of winning
Posted 31 Mar 2004
Horse experimenters win Mad Science awards
Animal Aid's Mad Science Awards (AAMSAs) - handed out each August for pointless and grotesque scientific research - this year go to research teams from 14 establishments who conducted invasive experiments on horses.
Posted 14 Aug 2003
Horse racing – the dark side exposed
Andrew Tyler reveals the dark side of horse racing... and describes how our campaign has exposed it.
Posted 01 Jun 2003
Call for Grand National ban after another tragic death
National campaign group Animal Aid has called for the annual Grand National horse race to be banned following the horrifying death of Goguenard in Saturday's gruelling race that also saw favourite Iris Bleu carried off...
Posted 05 Apr 2003