Posted on the 13th June 2025
Tomorrow is the Greyhound Derby Final, the biggest event in the greyhound racing calendar. But this is not a day to celebrate for the dogs – it is a day, like every other day in the racing calendar, which puts their lives at risk.
Excruciating injury and death are a possibility every time a greyhound races. It is a requirement for all GBGB licensed tracks to have a freezer to store the bodies of lifeless dogs.
The horrors do not end at the track. Dogs spend most of their racing lives in kennels – which can be cramped, dank and dirty. It is unknown how many dogs are ‘culled’ before they are even registered. Thousands of greyhounds are bred every year, but once they are deemed to no longer be ‘profitable’ or ‘useful’ – they find themselves vulnerable. Greyhounds have been found drowned, shot and buried in mass graves, shipped to countries to be bred from (where their children may enter the meat trade), or abandoned.
This isn’t ‘sport’ – this is animal abuse. And it’s time for it to end.
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