Thursday 18th March 2010
Memorial Ceremony at Cheltenham Racecourse
18th March 2010
starts
11:00
Animal Aid will stage a memorial ceremony at Cheltenham Racecourse to commemorate the 30 horses who have died at the 10 annual festivals held at the course since 1999.Protesters will don funereal clothes and maintain a dignified silence whilst Animal Aid’s Horse Racing Consultant, Dene Stansall, reads out a short eulogy for each of the equine victims.
Protesters will also bear ‘tombstones’ with the names of the horses who have been killed at the Festival over the past decade.
We will be positioned opposite the main entrance of Cheltenham Racecourse, near the roundabout, from around 11am until the start of the day’s racing at 1.30pm. We will have banners, placards and leaflets with us.
If there are enough people at the memorial ceremony, some campaigners may wish to distribute leaflets in the town centre to put our viewpoint across to people in the street, who may be more sympathetic than those who are intent on attending the races.
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