Horse Racing: Animal Welfare
(asked on 16th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of racehorses (a) injured and (b) killed in the UK in each year for which information is available.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) publishes annual statistics of the number of horse fatalities at racecourses. These are shown in the table below and can also be found on their website. We do not have any estimates of the numbers of racehorses injured.
| 1994 |
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Runners | 71,475 |
| 94,776 | 90,518 | 91,146 | 86,456 | 88,377 | 89975 | 91360 |
Fatalities | 202 |
| 181 | 211 | 196 | 189 | 156 | 171 | 167 |
Rate | 0.28% |
| 0.19% | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.22% | 0.18% | 0.19 | 0.18 |