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Last year’s Aintree Grand National Meeting (2016) was the most deadly this century. Six horses died as a result of the three days of racing.

For those horrified by the horse deaths at the 2017 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...

Cheltenham’s infamous racecourse claimed the lives of two more horses at this year’s Festival. On this third day of racing, eight-year-old Toe The Line (IRE) was put down after breaking her leg in the 4.50pm Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle.

After disturbing scenes of horse suffering on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival, day two claimed a victim in the first race of the afternoon when 5-year-old gelding Consul De Thaix broke his neck in an horrific fall.

Ten years ago, Animal Aid launched a new initiative, entitled Race Horse Deathwatch. The aim of the project was to publish information about the deaths of horses who were killed as a result of racing, because the racing industry did...

Two companies, GAG 403 Ltd and City Racing, are currently vying in a bid to gain approval to hold horse racing on the Capital's streets.

Many Clouds, the 2015 Grand National winner, collapsed and died after winning a gruelling race at Cheltenham on Saturday (28 January 2017). It was a tragedy that need not have happened.

Animal Aid is asking the public to stay away from this Saturday’s race meeting (7 January) at Wincanton Racecourse after its Boxing Day meeting left three horses dead.

As the curtain came down on Channels 4’s coverage of horse racing over the past 32 years, there was not one word of the suffering of horses who were used for betting and entertainment on the nation’s TV screens.

Harness Racing Australia has announced it will ban the use of the whip in racing from 1 September 2017.