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317 horses with racing industry passports sent to slaughter January-May 2025
New information obtained from the Food Standards Agency by Animal Aid (through a Freedom of Information request) reveals the truth behind the smokescreen of ‘glamour’ at Ascot this week. Statistics show that 317 horses from the racing industry were sent...
3,000 horses killed due to racing as Epsom Derby Festival begins
Animal Aid has named over three thousand race horses who have been killed as a result of racing on British racecourses.
Four horses killed after racing in the Scottish Grand National Meeting
Just a week after the Aintree Grand National claimed the life of Celebre d’Allen, the Scottish Grand National at Ayr, has seen two 7-year-old horses, The Kniphand and Macdermott, lose their lives. Persian Time has died after a falling in...
Springwell Bay killed at The Cheltenham Festival – taking the death toll of this brutal event up to 77 horses since 2000
Animal Aid is heartbroken and disgusted that yet another horse has been killed at The Cheltenham Festival. Springwell Bay was killed this afternoon after falling at a fence - and became the 77th victim of this barbaric event since the...
Notorious killer of race horses, the Cheltenham Festival, starts today!
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.  
598 horses from the racing industry were sent to slaughter in England in 2024
The Cheltenham Festival takes place between 11th-14th March - and will be surrounded by the inevitable ‘welfare propaganda’ pushed by the racing industry. We know this to be nothing more than empty marketing rhetoric, peddled by the industry to convince...
557 abuses of whip regulations in 2024 – it’s time to ban the whip in horse racing!
It is shocking that in 2024, there were  557 breaches of whip regulations. Currently, the whip may be used six times in a flat race and seven times in a jump race. These limits are arbitrary and mean nothing for the horses...
214 race horses killed in 2024 – a 21.6% increase in deaths from the previous year
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...
The Cheltenham Festival starts next week – here’s why it should be banned!
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.