The 2015 Aintree Grand National meeting has claimed its second victim. Balder Succes was destroyed on Sunday morning, two days after a serious fall in Friday’s Melling Chase. ...
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A supporter of national campaign group, Animal Aid, has just scaled the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square to wrap the famous ‘Gift Horse’, by Hans Hacke, in a green banner...
* Furless mice injected with human cancer cells * Rats chemically poisoned for six months * Mice genetically modified to develop cancer...
Animal Aid has long called for a ban on the use of the whip in racing. Newly published research gives further weight to our argument and brings us closer to...
Rolling Star became the second horse to die at the 2015 Cheltenham Festival when he fell heavily at the last obstacle of what was, at times, a furiously fast hurdle...
Just one week before the much-hyped Cheltenham Festival, a new Animal Aid report reveals that equine fatalities at the Gloucestershire course occurred so regularly during 2014 that there was a...
Jockeys riding on British racecourses broke the rules relating to use of the whip no fewer than 586 times in 2014. Twenty-two riders offended five or more times, and one...
Two horses who were being ridden by Britain’s leading jockey, AP McCoy, have died in the past two days....
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....
Yesterday, campaigners from Animal Aid staged a dynamic presence at the British Heart Foundation’s celebrity ball, and called on the organisation to stop funding experiments on animals. Activists distributed leaflets...