Animal Aid

Below is some suggested text on which you could base an email to your friends or colleagues explaining why they shouldn't bet on the Grand National:

Dear friends/colleagues/NAME

I am writing to ask you not to place a bet on the Grand National this year.

Few people realise that between 1999 and 2009, 30 horses lost their lives at the three-day Aintree event, which features hazardous obstacles and overcrowded races. Behind the ‘glamour’ of the Grand National lies a stark and unpalatable reality – punters’ betting money ensures that the Grand National takes place and, inevitably, that horses pay with their lives.

Nationally, around 420 horses are raced to death each year. Additionally, the industry, which overproduces horses in the search for winners, either sells on no-hopers, kills them in racing yards or sends them to abattoirs in the UK. Many thousands of horses – including racing Thoroughbreds – are butchered and their meat sold abroad for human consumption.

Please watch these two films, produced by Animal Aid, about the horse racing and the horse slaughter industries.

Above all, please don’t get swept along in the betting frenzy of the Grand National.

You bet. They die.

Kind regards

YOUR NAME HERE

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