Disagreement has shaped the horse world as we know it. “My horse is faster than yours,” uttered centuries ago in a language that almost certainly

One of the arguments trotted out from time to time by proponents of horse slaughter sounds good and goes like this: Slaughter offered a viable

It must have sounded like a good idea at the time: rats were destroying sugar cane crops in the Caribbean Islands and in 1872 someone

A horse-drawn buggy is not an automobile. That observation should go without saying; it’s why cars were called “horseless carriages” a century ago. But is

Sometimes it’s easy to figure out whether proposed legislation in Congress will affect the horse world, sometimes not so much. The purpose of S.1176, the

When his wife asked him to move out of the family home in 2008, Virgil Herd Jr. took up residence in his horse trailer. He

Equine Activity Liability Laws are a legislative mandate that riding or other horse activities are dangerous and that participants in the activities assume the risk

Legislators in Suffolk County are adding teeth to the country’s first animal abuse registry and state lawmakers are trying to ban horse-drawn carriage rides in

The economic recession (or depression, depending on the hit you’ve taken) has been hard on people in the horse industry. Money goes out faster than

If you don’t like the weather in Kentucky, an old saying goes, wait a few minutes and it will change. The same often is true

How do you kill time in Central Kentucky between the Rolex Three-Day Event on the last weekend in April and the Kentucky Derby on the

It’s difficult to gauge the effectiveness of clandestine videos and photographs when it comes to curbing abuse of animals at vast factory farms and at

Animals are not people (although as I write this, our Dalmatian is lounging on the sofa, apparently engrossed in a golf tournament). But does this

It wasn’t fraud on a billion-dollar, Bernie Madoff scale, but it still was fraud. And Trina Lee Kenney got caught. When complaints about Kenney’s business

“If the lying were stopped by law, the business of horse trading would come to an end . . .” This quote was lifted from

The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court shot down the appeal of Ernest Paragallo’s animal cruelty conviction on March 31, apparently clearing