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Animal Aid has long called for a ban on the use of the whip in racing. Newly published research gives further weight to our argument and brings us closer to our goal.

Rolling Star became the second horse to die at the 2015 Cheltenham Festival when he fell heavily at the last obstacle of what was, at times, a furiously fast hurdle race on Wednesday afternoon.

Just one week before the much-hyped Cheltenham Festival, a new Animal Aid report reveals that equine fatalities at the Gloucestershire course occurred so regularly during 2014 that there was a 50 per cent chance of a horse dying at any...

Jockeys riding on British racecourses broke the rules relating to use of the whip no fewer than 586 times in 2014. Twenty-two riders offended five or more times, and one jockey, Jack Duern, broke the rules on nine occasions.

Two horses who were being ridden by Britain’s leading jockey, AP McCoy, have died in the past two days.

Following the publication of a landmark Animal Aid report analysing the cause of so many equine deaths at Cheltenham Racecourse, this year’s Festival will see a reduction in the number of runners at the Gloucestershire venue.

Southwell Racecourse witnessed yet another equine fatality on 2 December when seven-year-old Landerbee (IRE) was destroyed after breaking his leg in a ten-horse hurdle race on the venue’s National Hunt course.

Spectators and TV viewers witnessed a horrific five-horse pile-up on the newly laid Tapeta racing surface at Wolverhampton racecourse yesterday evening (6 November).

Screened off in order to be out of sight from the race-going public in the grandstands, Wigmore Hall’s unceremonious death was brought about by a bullet from a silent pistol. Two minutes earlier, he had shattered a foreleg, racing at...

Two horses, both aged six-years-old, lost their lives at Plumpton Racecourse yesterday afternoon (Sunday 11 May).