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Capped For Victory: The story of a racing industry victim
The March issue of leading equine magazine Your Horse featured a four-page article entitled ‘Fit, Healthy and Being Slaughtered’. Animal Aid provided much of the source material for the article, which featured images from our undercover footage of horse slaughter at a Somerset abattoir. The article also included a photograph of 8-year-old Capped For Victory, who failed to sell at the Doncaster January horse sales. Animal Aid has discovered his fate.
More about racehorse Capped for Victory and how you can help
Ask your MP to help ban production of birds for shooting
David Taylor MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM 1684) calling for a ban on the production of birds for ‘sport’ shooting.
It is vital that you contact your MP and ask him or her to sign this EDM before Parliament breaks up for its summer recess (21 July - 12 October).
More about the EDM Check if your MP has signed the EDM
Appleby Horse Fair – Time to Call a Halt to this Festival of Animal Abuse
Appleby Horse Fair takes place every June and attracts some 30,000 visitors who come to see horses being paraded, raced and bathed, and to get a taste of what they think is a Romany tradition that supposedly dates back to 1685.
The reality of this event is quite different.
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