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PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR HORSES IN COURT ” . This page includes the following text: 19
“In 2023, we delayed the start of the Grand National and created a national
conversation about the cruelty of horse racing. Now, 45 people have been
charged with public nuisance. This is a huge opportunity to put horse
racing on trial before a jury. The court cases will start in September - in the
meantime, we urgently need your support to help us cover the costs of
transport, lawyers and building a legal defence that will make history for
animals . ”
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This page allows supporters to make one-off or monthly payments, and records that
numerous and frequent payments were made since the page was published on 8
November 2024 until at least 22 June 2025.
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Also under the page entitled “ Taking animal rights to trial ”, AR trumpets “ the disruption
of the English Greyhound Derby ” in 2023, and the group’s actions to “ free ” beagle dogs from a breeding facility in December 2022. 20
Under the page entitled, “ Our History ” , 21 AR further celebrates what it calls the “ 2023
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Summer of Animal Rising ” , with the following text:
“ In the Spring of 2023 we launched Animal Rising with our boldest action yet:
more than 100 people aiming to halt the Grand National, the UK's largest
horse racing event.
Our intervention achieved 9 front-pages and hours of broadcast air-time, all
shining a spotlight on our broken relationship with animals and nature.
But we weren't done there, as we disrupted three more horse racing events,
occupied an intensive dairy farm, rescued three sheep from the King's land,
demonstrated outside half of the UK's remaining greyhound racetracks and
dropped a banner at the Greyhound Derby Final.”
18. AR has also posted a number of press releases on its website since the five-year Injunction
was ordered in July 2024, calling for an end to horse racing, and for protest action to
achieve this aim. These are summarised below, beginning with the most recent:
A press release posted on AR’s website on 2 May 2025 22 refers to deaths of horses
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over the course of certain racing events, and includes the following statement by AR
campaigner, Claudia Penna Rojas:
19 Pages 74 - 79 of CB1 20 Pages 62 - 63 of CB1 21 Pages 80 - 83 of CB1
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