Horse Racing: Animal Welfare

(asked on 3rd February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many racehorses were killed outright or destroyed during or shortly after a race meeting on each British racecourse in (a) flat racing, (b) all-weather racing and (c) National Hunt racing in 2014.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 23rd February 2015

This data is not held by Government. Statistical data on numbers of horse fatalities is held by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA). However, statistics for fatalities for 2014 are not yet available.

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