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Draft Horses Add Historic Touch to Christmas Tree Farm

Isabel and Irene are moving along at a casual pace among the Scotch pines and matted grass, as casually as 1,500-pound giants do anything. A brisk wind is blowing through a windbreak of oak trees nearby.

The sounds of brown leaves rustling

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Missing Mich. Horse Located

A couple whose horse was stolen from their farm while they slept later found the white Arabian.

David and Amy Flach said someone scattered horse feed on the ground during the night of Dec. 9-10 and lured the horse away from their 20-acre

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Two Horses Shot in Head in Southern Minn.

Two horses are recovering after being shot in the head in a Brown County pasture in southern Minnesota.

Authorities say one of the horses was shot on Dec. 5 and the second horse was shot two days later.

Deputies suspect the same person

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Mich. Couple Searching for Missing Horse

A Michigan couple whose horse was stolen from their farm while they slept is mobilizing local police and the community to find the white Arabian before it’s too late.

David and Amy Flach said someone scattered horse feed on the ground durin

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Pony Visits Brighten Days for Young Patients

After being hospitalized with a viral throat infection for several days, 3-year-old Alexis Carreon saw a friendly, furry face at her hospital room window one morning.

It was Mosey the Shetland pony.

“I came back from getting her

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Prosecutors to Decide on Okla. Horse Cases Next Week

Grant County, Okla., prosecutors plan to decide next week whether to file charges after a group of horses were found starving in a pasture near Medford.

The sheriff’s office earlier this week seized six horses who were malnourished and had

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Zebra Stabbing? Police Have Doubt

Authorities in Dodge County, Wis., responded this week to a call about a stabbed zebra — but they say they’re not treating it as a criminal investigation.

The sheriff’s department received a call Monday about a 12-year-old zebra found dead

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Endurance Race Debuts at Games in Qatar

Horses galloped through a race in the Arabian desert for the first time in any Asian Games Dec. 14 while a number of more conventional sporting pursuits were completed back in the city.


As the regional games, which have attracted 10,500

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Missouri Horse Farm to Become Public Park

Workers are busy turning land in Springfield, Mo., that once housed a private horse farm into a public park that will feature horses, while also trying to teach environmental lessons to visitors.


The Springfield Parks and Recreation

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Pa. Woman Accepts Plea Deal in Horse Cruelty Case

A Dover, Pa., area horse farm owner accused of animal cruelty has been placed on probation under a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Under the agreement, 14 of the 15 abuse and neglect charges have been dropped. And the deal means that

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Horses Injured in Barn Collapse Healing

The injuries were too much for the pregnant mare, but 20 other horses that were in a southwest Missouri barn that collapsed under the weight of ice and snow are coming along, their owner and a veterinarian said.


Robin Ramirez has been

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New Lexington Park to Honor Black Horsemen

A new park designed to commemorate northeast Lexington’s role in the history of thoroughbred racing is in the planning stages, with proponents saying it will help the city and blacks reclaim their places in racing history.

The park will be

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