In a move that could lead to the end of the use of the whip in horse racing, Towcester racecourse in Northamptonshire has announced that, from October, it will ban...
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The Grand National continued its tradition of killing horses today when Ornais broke his neck and Dooneys Gate broke his back in the gruelling 4 and a half mile event....
The first day of the Grand National Meeting of 2011 claimed the life of 6-year-old bay gelding Inventor....
In the same week that Animal Aid publishes the results of a damning investigation revealing widespread, repeated and flagrant breaches of the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) rules on whipping, racing’s...
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...
As an emergency doctor, I remember smiling at a medical textbook description of the idealised Casualty department. The fantasy regime offered time for plenty of diligent study – periods that...
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....
One of the first decisions by the new Hunting and Shooting Minister, Jim Paice, has been to withdraw a new Code of Practice for ‘game bird’ production (made under the...
Unique research by national campaign group Animal Aid demonstrates that a horse dies on a British racecourse approximately every other day....
The RSPCA has formally endorsed Animal Aid’s call for CCTV to be installed in all UK slaughterhouses and has said that it will make cameras mandatory in all Freedom Food...