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In the wake of six horse deaths at Cheltenham this month, the carnage has continued at racecourses up and down the country.

12 celebrities have signed an open letter calling for urgent action over horse deaths at Cheltenham. Six horses died at this year’s Festival, including four on the final day of racing.

For those horrified by the horse deaths at the 2018 Cheltenham Festival, please make a pledge to help with Animal Aid's Horse Racing Awareness Week, which takes place in the days leading up to the notorious Grand National race on...

Three horses lost their lives in what was one of the ugliest races in the history of the Cheltenham Festival.

Racing at full speed and close to the end of the 2-mile Randox Health County Hurdle, 5-year-old grey gelding Sandsend (FR) lost his footing on Cheltenham Racecourse’s atrociously heavy, poached ground.

Cheltenham, Britain’s most dangerous racecourse, claimed two equine victims on the first day of its 2018 Festival Meeting.

Animal Aid has launched an e-petition urging the government to set up an independent regulatory body, with horse welfare as its only interest, which will take meaningful action to stop horses dying.

A year on since the death of race horse Many Clouds at Cheltenham, the racecourse is, at this weekend’s race meeting, screening a film about the horse, whilst his trainer, Oliver Sherwood, is taking a live Q&A session.

In the space of just over thirteen weeks, seven horses have perished as a result of racing at Lingfield’s All-Weather racecourse.

Race Horse Deathwatch Review 2017 Animal Aid was able to find out about 159* horses who died as a result of racing on British racecourses in 2017. The number of fatalities is well above the 2016 Deathwatch figure of 136.