Key reports and briefings

Animal Aid continues to produce revealing and thoroughly researched reports and Briefings on a wide range of topics related to horse racing. They include the abuse of the whip in racing, breeding of race horses and the safety and welfare problems at specific racecourses.

The Trouble With Horse Racing

A summary booklet outlining the problems with the horse racing industry.

Beaten to the Line

Our regular analysis of whip offences.

A Dead Cert: Vivisection and the Horse Racing Industry

Describes experiments on horses funded by the horse racing industry.

Bred to Death

Our report on how the racing industry’s drive for profit and glory is ruining the Thoroughbred horse.