The sudden deaths of two horses at Newbury Racecourse on Saturday – apparently from electrocution – has been widely reported. The victims were Fenix Two and Marching Song. Fenix Two...
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Animal Aid has campaigned for many years to abolish the use of the whip in horse racing. Our 2010 report, 'Beaten To The Line', shows the extent of the maltreatment...
After three years of campaigning, Animal Aid has succeeded in getting Cheltenham Racecourse to remove a notoriously dangerous fence from its position at the bottom of the racecourse hill....
Unique research by national campaign group Animal Aid demonstrates that a horse dies on a British racecourse approximately every other day....
Swansea dog track in South Wales has closed less than two weeks after the owner was fined under the Animal Welfare Act for keeping greyhounds in poor conditions. ...
‘Older And Wiser’ became the first equine victim at Britain’s newest racecourse, Ffos Las, following an horrific fall....
Undercover footage released by Animal Defenders International shows shocking scenes of elephants being hit in the face with a metal elephant hook, kept chained up for up to eleven hours...
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,...
Killarney racecourse has been accused of ‘cold hearted complacency’ by Animal Aid, Europe’s largest animal rights organisation. The group’s attack comes after the death of six horses in one day...
The number of race horse fatalities on Britain’s All-Weather (AW) racecourses has tripled during the past 12 months, despite their artificial surfaces having a reputation for being safe and durable....