Animal Aid has campaigned against the use of the whip, in horse racing, for more than 15 years. As part of our campaign, we collate and release data on the number of whip offences committed...
Posted 17 May 2021
Animal Aid has called for a ban on the three-day Grand National Meeting after Houx Gris and The Long Mile were killed, bringing the death total for the three-day event to 55 horses since the...
Posted 12 Apr 2021
Posted 08 Apr 2021
Several animal protection groups and animal sanctuaries have joined together to speak out for race horses.
Posted 19 Mar 2021
The Cheltenham Festival confirmed its reputation as a lethal event for horses, with the death of nine-year-old Kings Temptation, who was killed on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival, in the gruelling 3 mile...
Posted 17 Mar 2021
The notorious Cheltenham Festival will be taking place this year from Tuesday 16 through to Friday 19 March. Horses have died at the Festival every year since 2000, except in 2001 when the Festival...
Posted 09 Mar 2021
Animal Aid is shocked and dismayed at the paltry punishment handed to three-times Grand National winning trainer, Gordon Elliott, after images emerged last weekend of him astride a dead horse. Elliott has been given a...
Posted 05 Mar 2021
Following the publication of shocking images of Grand National winning trainer, Gordon Elliott, and amateur jockey, Rob James, sitting on newly dead horses, Animal Aid has written to racing’s regulators to ask how many horses...
Posted 03 Mar 2021
Animal Aid has called for the immediate ban from racing of Grand National winning trainer Gordon Elliott, who was dropped as a Betfair ambassador this morning, following the publication of a photo of Elliott sitting...
Posted 01 Mar 2021