Horse Racing

The Cheltenham Festival is back, which means only one thing: more dead horses.

Behind the romanticised facade of horse racing is a world of injuries, drugging, gruesome breakdowns, and slaughter.

Horse racing returns with an all-too-familiar pattern: December Second died after sustaining a fatal injury at Newcastle Racecourse.

As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, the organisers of the Grand National announced that they were cancelling the cruel spectacle this year – so let’s celebrate.

The Cheltenham Festival is deadly – and always will be as long as the cruel spectacle continues.

The Cheltenham Festival is back, which means only one thing: more dead horses.

Following a police investigation prompted by a video exposé of shocking abuse and slaughter of horses at an abattoir in South Korea, two workers have been fined for using illegal killing methods. Irish horse Googlette was among the animals killed there.

The country that brought you K-pop and K-beauty has a dirty secret: thousands of imported horses used for racing and their offspring end up on South Korean dinner plates.

Horses continue to suffer and die with the return of the notoriously dangerous Grand National Festival. Here’s what you need to know.

With the Cheltenham Festival on for yet another season, the death toll for horses subjected to this cruelty continues to rise.