About 50 horses had to be moved from a barn at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon when a grass fire in an outer area threatened the structure. No animals were hurt, and the fire did not damage any Lone Star buildings.
When police cited three Amish men from western Kentucky for not having lights and a slow-moving vehicle symbol on their horse-drawn buggies, it started a conflict between religious freedom and state law.
The Amish men have argued that
An Oregon rancher who set off on a cross-country horseback ride seven months ago in search of what’s good in America dismounted in Hendersonville, N.C., feeling encouraged by the spirit and stories of the people he met.
Bill Inman’s journey
Organized gambling on horse races might return to China next year for the first time since the ruling Communist Party seized power in 1949, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday.
The central government has approved regular horse
Olympic organizers do not expect other equestrian teams to follow the lead of Switzerland by pulling out of events at this year’s Games due to Hong Kong’s heat and humidity.
The Swiss team said Wednesday that it would not take part in the
A carriage hauling more than a dozen tourists through the historic section of Charleston, S.C., crashed after a horse pulling it slipped its bridle and ran, police said.
Six of the 13 tourists thrown to the ground were treated for minor
Switzerland’s dressage team will not take part at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The move follows the withdrawal of the team’s top rider, Silvia Ikle, who doesn’t want to expose her horse to travel-related stress and the humid conditions in Hon
British police and animal welfare authorities rescued 84 neglected horses Wednesday from a farm where they had found 31 dead horses, ponies, and donkeys, officials said.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officials were
The head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture said lots of work remains to be done before a new five-year farm bill can escape President Bush’s veto pen and become law.
Chuck
Autopsy results are expected for a woman whose family says she was trampled by a police horse while trying to pet it.
The accident occurred outside a shopping mall in suburban Henrietta, N.Y., when Susan Banker, 51, of Lima approached a
Fire officials said a mudslide flooded horse stables in an Orange County canyon with mud and debris.
Fire Capt. Mike Blawn said no people or animals were hurt in the slide Sunday afternoon in Modjeska Canyon, which burned during last fall’s
The New Mexico state Transportation Department has been sued by a Rowe woman who said she was injured when her vehicle struck a horse on N.M. 34.
Gina Bazan was driving near Rowe early Jan. 29, 2007, when she struck the animal ”running
A Reno County, Kan., man has been arrested on multiple animal cruelty charges after two horses died on his farm.
Sheriff’s officials launched an investigation of 43-year-old Dwayne Pike in November after a deputy spotted several horses on his
Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a rural Mansfield, Ill., man following the death of three horses on his farm.
Piatt County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Todd McCabe said that he arrested Richard Pagel, rural Mansfield, for aggravated
A nonprofit group is studying the possibility of building an indoor riding and rodeo center on the Standing Rock reservation.
“We’re in a community where we haven’t shared in the prosperity of the rest of the state,” said Jonathan Anderson,
Prosecutors in Lake County, Ill., have issued an arrest warrant for the owner of 18 Belgian draft horses killed in a crash Oct. 27 while the animals were being transported in a double-decker trailer. (For more information see
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