Nine horses have been killed racing in the Aintree Grand National during the last decade, with two of those victims coming during this year’s race in April....
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Animal Aid’s analysis of whipping offences committed during the first six months of racing in 2011, reveals little improvement in the way that jockeys treat their horses, despite mounting criticism...
Cigarettes stubbed out on pigs’ faces; one animal punched in the head; another goaded in the face; regular blows and kicks; seriously injured pigs forced to drag themselves to slaughter…...
In a move that is likely to prove critical to the outcome of the racing industry’s current review of the future of the whip, the RSPCA membership has declared its...
Sedgefield racecourse reinforced its reputation as Britain's deadliest racecourse - along with Cheltenham* - when three horses perished there on Monday 13 June....
Animal Aid's Shooting Consultant, Kit Davidson, was recently interviewed as part of BBC's Countryfile programme about a particularly cruel device used by gamekeepers for killing birds – the Larsen Trap....
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...
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....
To mark Horse Racing Awareness Week, national campaign group Animal Aid has posted a street billboard in Liverpool city centre that reveals the lethal reality of the world-famous Aintree Grand...
The first day of the Grand National Meeting of 2011 claimed the life of 6-year-old bay gelding Inventor....