On Thursday February 12, five-year-old gelding, Poyle Toby, became the first equine victim at the newly revamped Chelmsford City racecourse – formerly known as Great Leighs....
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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...
We are delighted to report that Animal Aid’s new political website, Vote For Animals, has been recognised as a ‘best new website’ by influential specialist journal, Web User magazine. ...
Southwell Racecourse witnessed yet another equine fatality on 2 December when seven-year-old Landerbee (IRE) was destroyed after breaking his leg in a ten-horse hurdle race on the venue’s National Hunt...
Spectators and TV viewers witnessed a horrific five-horse pile-up on the newly laid Tapeta racing surface at Wolverhampton racecourse yesterday evening (6 November)....
People often say they do not vote because politicians are ‘all the same’ but for animals, as well as people, it matters very much which MPs get elected to office,...
Screened off in order to be out of sight from the race-going public in the grandstands, Wigmore Hall’s unceremonious death was brought about by a bullet from a silent pistol....
Two horses, both aged six-years-old, lost their lives at Plumpton Racecourse yesterday afternoon (Sunday 11 May)....
‘Thankfully, there were no horse fatalities in this year’s Grand National but the race was a stomach-churning, chaotic event, with just 18 of the 39 who took part able to...
Four horses died at last week’s four-day Cheltenham Festival. This is an attrition rate four times higher than that found in racing as a whole, and twice the death rate...