Horse racing’s showcase meeting, Royal Ascot, has claimed the life of three-year-old colt, Stravagante, who is reported to have broken his leg in a race on Friday (19 June) and was subsequently destroyed. This follows...
Posted 22 Jun 2015
To remember the four horses who died at last year’s Royal Ascot meeting – Flat racing’s most prestigious event – Animal Aid staged a ceremony on Ladies’ Day, Thursday 18 June.
Posted 15 Jun 2015
The 2015 Aintree Grand National meeting has claimed its second victim. Balder Succes was destroyed on Sunday morning, two days after a serious fall in Friday’s Melling Chase. The 7-year-old gelding injured his right shoulder...
Posted 12 Apr 2015
A supporter of national campaign group, Animal Aid, has just scaled the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square to wrap the famous ‘Gift Horse’, by Hans Hacke, in a green banner that reads: Horse Racing: You bet,...
Posted 11 Apr 2015
Animal Aid has long called for a ban on the use of the whip in racing. Newly published research gives further weight to our argument and brings us closer to our goal.
Posted 27 Mar 2015
Rolling Star became the second horse to die at the 2015 Cheltenham Festival when he fell heavily at the last obstacle of what was, at times, a furiously fast hurdle race on Wednesday afternoon.
Posted 11 Mar 2015
Just one week before the much-hyped Cheltenham Festival, a new Animal Aid report reveals that equine fatalities at the Gloucestershire course occurred so regularly during 2014 that there was a 50 per cent chance of...
Posted 03 Mar 2015
Jockeys riding on British racecourses broke the rules relating to use of the whip no fewer than 586 times in 2014. Twenty-two riders offended five or more times, and one jockey, Jack Duern, broke the...
Posted 23 Feb 2015
Two horses who were being ridden by Britain’s leading jockey, AP McCoy, have died in the past two days. This brings to 29 the total number of McCoy’s mounts who have perished since March 2007...
Posted 18 Feb 2015
Following the publication of a landmark Animal Aid report analysing the cause of so many equine deaths at Cheltenham Racecourse, this year’s Festival will see a reduction in the number of runners at the Gloucestershire...
Posted 07 Jan 2015