Animal Aid

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

Dear NAME

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

Thirty-five horses have been killed in the three-day Grand National meeting over the last decade – three of them lost their lives last year. The obstacles are deliberately hazardous to add to the ‘excitement’ of the race. Your betting money ensures that the Grand National takes place every year and 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, sells on no-hopers, 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 short 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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