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At a packed meeting last night (19 December 2011), Oxford councillors voted against plans to introduce a bylaw that would allow companies to operate horse-drawn carriages in the city centre.

To mark 100 years of Cheltenham's National Hunt Festival, the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum organised an exhibition, entitled Horse Parade, featuring 10 sculptures of horses by national artists.

Thirty-one days into the new whip rules being implemented, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has for a second time succumbed to pressure from whip-happy and abusive jockeys.

By giving in to the petulant complaints by jockeys about the new whip rules, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has again demonstrated that it doesn’t have the courage, competence or strategic intelligence to act as the regulator for British horseracing.

Animal Aid’s Response to the BHA’s Review of the Whip

Nine horses have been killed racing in the Aintree Grand National during the last decade, with two of those victims coming during this year’s race in April.

Animal Aid’s analysis of whipping offences committed during the first six months of racing in 2011, reveals little improvement in the way that jockeys treat their horses, despite mounting criticism from the public, media, MPs and animal welfare organisations.

In a move that is likely to prove critical to the outcome of the racing industry’s current review of the future of the whip, the RSPCA membership has declared its opposition to jockeys whipping horses, except for safety reasons. At...

Sedgefield racecourse reinforced its reputation as Britain's deadliest racecourse - along with Cheltenham* - when three horses perished there on Monday 13 June.

In a move that could lead to the end of the use of the whip in horse racing, Towcester racecourse in Northamptonshire has announced that, from October, it will ban jockeys from beating horses in all of its races.