Horses

Winning a rodeo event in cowboy country is a big deal if you're a ranch horse. Doing it less than a year after a razor-wire fence sliced one of your front legs to the bone is a tearful Hollywood comeback.

The Kentucky Derby has been postponed until September, but new horse races are coming to Churchill Downs sooner than you might think.

Donkey polo was a popular game in ancient China among some sections of society.

The country's horse purchase last October was reportedly its largest buy since 2015, when it acquired 61 horses for $192,204, according to Russian customs data.

"The wild horses are better equipped to handle a hurricane than most of us humans living on the Outer Banks," the Corolla Wild Horse Fund wrote.

The Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association has been trying to stop Kelvin Brent Asham from performing dental procedures on horses for the last three years.

Making horses jump over huge flames may seem a wildly inappropriate way to honor the patron saint of domesticated animals.

Study of Icelandic graves also appears to show female horses were eaten.

Horses in "Red Dead Redemption 2" are more than just a mode of transportation.

The Forest Service will first try to adopt the horses out before putting them up for sale.

"That's a massacre. It's not neglect," property owner Michael Cheung said.

Is killing horses the humane thing to do?

Mini-horses are allowed—as long as they're trained.

"I did smell the decomposition and the bodies starting to smell."

Almost 1,000 horses were taken into care by the U.K. Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 2017.

Dozens of horses, including newborn foals, in various states of decay littered the property.

"What kind of idiot would do something like this to an animal and endanger people's lives at that club?"

Mick Jagger isn't going to like this.

In 2017, the Bureau of Land Management spent $80.4 million on maintaining wild horses.

Equestrians on social media whip the Alabama Senate candidate for his awkward cowboy ride to the polls.

Twenty-nine horses have died in the Creek fire that swept through Southern California.

Vet medicine and human medicine can help each other.

As human victims of Houston flooding struggle to find shelter, their dogs, cats, horses and cattle are being abandoned and lost—but not forgotten.

Studying horses helps us understand whether animals evolve because habitat requires it or move because they've evolved.

A petition for the sport to be included in the Olympic Games has been launched.

New animal-computer interaction software could revolutionize equine understanding.

Trump called the protesters "thugs who were flying the Mexican flag."

Dogs are the only other animal shown to have the same ability.

The most important question of our, or any other, time.

The findings don't prove that puppies prevent asthma, but they suggest expectant parents may not need to give away the family pet