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The attrition rate of fallers from the outset of the 2022 Cheltenham Festival has again highlighted the dangers horses face when racing.

As the best of Ireland’s race horses come over to Britain to run at the Cheltenham Festival, they leave behind in Ireland a shocking death toll of horses who have gone under the public, media and political radar.

If the failings of the racing industry were to be represented in a single issue, it is that of the deaths of hundreds of horses each year. 2021 proved no exception with a record number of victims paying the price...

Ask your MP to sign a new Early Day Motion to end horse slaughter in the UK.

It is not only reindeer who are used for ‘entertainment’ in festive events. Sadly, Salisbury cathedral is planning to use live camels and donkeys in their ‘Family Service’ on Christmas Eve.

We need 100,000 signatures on our petition by midnight on 17 November in order to trigger a parliamentary debate on horse slaughter, and force the government to take action on the root of the problem.

As part of the racing industry’s consultation process on the future of the whip in racing, Animal Aid met with representatives from the British Horseracing Authority (26 October 2021).

Today, 7 October 2021, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced that from January 2022, race horses will not be allowed to be sold to abattoirs to be slaughtered for their meat.

People often ask the Campaigns Team at Animal Aid what it is like to watch slaughter footage. It's sickening - but it is only bearable because we know that we can do something about it.

Shouted and sworn at, shot through the head then dragged through a pool of his own blood – the horrific end to the life of a race horse …