The Jockey Club Releases Data from the Equine Injury Database for 2024
According to the initial data analysis from the 16th year of reporting to the Equine Injury Database (EID), the rate of fatal injury in 2024 was 1.11 per 1,000 starts, the lowest rate since the EID began in 2009. This is the fifth consecutive year that the rate of fatal injury has been below 1.5. The rate of fatal injury decreased 15.9% from 2023 and has decreased 44.5% since the first statistics were published from the EID in 2009.
Analysis of the EID was provided by Dr. Euan Bennet (University of Glasgow) and by Professor Tim Parkin (University of Bristol), who has consulted on the EID since its inception.
“It is remarkable and indeed gratifying to see the sustained improvement in these figures,” Parkin said. “It is a credit to all involved in the industry that such a significant improvement in the risk of fatal injury can be achieved off the back of the establishment of the EID and, of course, alongside lots of hard work from very many parties.”
Based on the 2024 data, 99.89% of flat racing starts at the racetracks participating in the EID were completed without a fatality.