Talking Horses: Jockey Club applies for Derby injunction to block Animal Rising

Body says it has been forced to go to court because group has made it ‘explicitly clear’ that it intends to disrupt meetingThe Jockey Club, which operates Epsom racecourse, has applied for an injunction to prevent the protest group Animal Rising engaging in “acts intended to disrupt the Derby Festival” when the track stages both the Oaks and the Derby on 2 and 3 June.Activists from Animal Rising attempted to prevent the Grand National at Aintree going ahead last month, an