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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.  

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 by the racing industry, Horse...

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 – and growing – death toll.

Saturday 3rd June sees 2023’s young generation of equine stars line up in the Epsom Derby.

In three weeks, the three-day Grand National Festival will take place (13-15 April). The event is a relentless killer of race horses, who die in the most horrific of circumstances.

The notorious Cheltenham Festival, which has killed so many innocent horses, will take place 14-17 March 2023.

Today – 1 March 2023 – As the horse racing industry gears up for the major jump events of the year, Animal Aid reveals a brand-new campaign which calls for a total ban on the dangerous sport of jump racing...

With an update on the racing industry’s review on the use of the whip in racing imminent, Animal Aid are reiterating  our stance on the use of the whip in racing.

53 horses have been killed at the three-day Grand National Meeting since the year 2000

As attention turns towards the glitz and pomp of Royal Ascot, we would urge compassionate animal lovers to speak out and take action for the horses who have been killed on British racecourses this year.