Horse Racing Awareness Week

06/10/08

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Horse Racing Awareness Week

29 Mar - 04 Apr 2009

A campaigning to deliver a powerful message to those who believe that by betting on horse races they are simply indulging in a 'harmless flutter'.

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Most people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that, behind the scenes, lies a story of immense suffering.

Approximately 15,000 foals are born into the closely-related British and Irish racing industries each year, yet only a third go on to become racers. Those horses who do not make the grade may be slaughtered for meat or repeatedly change hands in a downward spiral of neglect. Of those horses who do go on to race, around 375 are raced to death every year.

Animal Aid
The Old Chapel
Bradford Street
Tonbridge
Kent TN9 1AW

Phone: +44 (0)1732 364546
Fax: +44 (0)1732 366533
Email: info@animalaid.org.uk
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/AA/HOME/

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