Notorious killer of race horses, the Cheltenham Festival, starts today!
Today is the first day of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival – a four-day event which has claimed the lives of 76 race horses since 2000.
Posted 11 Mar 2025

Today is the first day of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival – a four-day event which has claimed the lives of 76 race horses since 2000.
Posted 11 Mar 2025
Today, our anti-dairy advert heads into cinemas. The advert, which has been airing on Channel 4 and Sky TV for the last three weeks, highlights the systemic suffering of dairy cows and calves and urges...
Posted 07 Mar 2025
The Cheltenham Festival takes place between 11th-14th March - and will be surrounded by the inevitable ‘welfare propaganda’ pushed by the racing industry. We know this to be nothing more than empty marketing rhetoric, peddled...
Posted 06 Mar 2025
It is shocking that in 2024, there were 557 breaches of whip regulations. Currently, the whip may be used six times in a flat race and seven times in a jump race. These limits are arbitrary...
Posted 05 Mar 2025
It is horrifying that in 2024, 214 horses were killed as a result of racing on British racecourses. Horses died from excruciating injury including broken legs, necks, or heart attacks. Despite a new marketing campaign...
Posted 04 Mar 2025
A week tomorrow heralds the beginning of the four-day Cheltenham Festival, an event which has taken the lives of 76 horses since 2000. It is hard to imagine any human-sport with such a disturbing –...
Posted 03 Mar 2025
In February, we launched our BIGGEST farming campaign ever. Focusing on the dairy industry, our campaign comprised of nationwide billboards, street outreach and – best of all – the UK’s FIRST anti-dairy advert on primetime...
Posted 02 Mar 2025
As part of our farming campaign’s Week of Action, Animal Aid were in London yesterday talking to the public about the routine suffering of cows within the dairy industry.
Posted 25 Feb 2025
In incredible news, Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies has just announced plans to ban greyhound racing ‘as soon as practicably possible’. Wales will be the first UK nation to ban this cruel excuse for a...
Posted 18 Feb 2025
We’re taking our new campaign, Terror on Our Tables, to the streets with a Week of Action for dairy cows. To celebrate, we’re also launching a brand-new set of nationwide adverts calling attention to the...
Posted 17 Feb 2025