In September 2014 Animal Aid caught on camera the shooting of race horse Wigmore Hall after he broke a leg while racing in the Doncaster St Leger meeting. At this year’s meeting, Animal Aid again...
Posted 12 Sep 2016
Animal Aid’s Horse Racing Awareness Week takes place in the seven days leading up to the country’s most famous race, the Grand National in April. We stage a series of high-profile media events to highlight...
Posted 04 Sep 2016
An analysis of literally thousands of pages of racing results has revealed that no fewer than 375 horses are raced to death every year.
Posted 04 Sep 2016
During the 1999/2000 National Hunt horse racing season, 247 horses were raced to death - that's one dead horse for every 31 who took part in National Hunt rules events.
Posted 04 Sep 2016
In the second section of this special Animal Aid report – Running for their Lives – we take a look at the Grand National itself. No British course arouses such passion or controversy as Aintree...
Posted 04 Sep 2016
In the third section of this special Animal Aid report – Running for their Lives – we take a look at the statistics relating to the 247 horses who died during the 1999/2000 National Hunt...
Posted 04 Sep 2016
In the final section of this special Animal Aid report – Running for their Lives – we list the 247 horses who were raced to death during the 1999/2000 National Hunt Season. Absolutely Equiname, 9yo...
Posted 04 Sep 2016
Numbers Approximately 13,000 foals are born into the closely-related British and Irish racing industries each year. Foal numbers have grown dramatically over the past fifty years. It is likely that many of the ‘failures’ are...
Posted 04 Sep 2016
Our special report on how the racing industry's drive for profit and glory is ruining the Thoroughbred horse.
Posted 04 Sep 2016