It is heart breaking to hear about how the recession is hitting us all an in particular so many horse owners. In the news today there’s yet another story about how people are having to give up their horses and how horse havens are getting more and more given to them.
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Can yuo believe this story - a man ticketed for what his horse left on the road. Read the full story here

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Good News.  the last premises under investigation for equine piroplasmosis, a blood-borne disease, has been released from quarantine after all remaining horses tested negative, said Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bronson. That location was in Polk County, an agriculture department spokeswoman said.
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Did you know that horses can lock the muscles in their legs so they can go to sleep standing up and not fall over?  This was a useful trick when horses lived as wild animals and needed to be able to make a fast get away from a predator

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There are over 350 different breeds of horses and ponies. These fall into four main groups:
“light” horses with small bones, thin legs and weighing less than 1300 pounds; e.g. Thoroughbreds, Quarter Horses, Morgan horses and Arabians “heavy” or draft horses which can weigh up to 2000 pounds and are strong with large bones and sturdy [...]

Can you imagine how cinema goers must have felt when a horse burst into their theatre!  Well it’s the sort of story you couldn’t dream up and it happened recently in the UK.  Sadly the Youtube video has been taken down, otherwise I would have included it for you, but you can read the story [...]

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Go to the pasture and walk around the whole herd quietly, and at such a distance as not to cause them to scare and run. Then approach them very slowly, and if they stick up their heads and seem to be frightened, hold on until they become quiet, so as not to make them run [...]

A drunk German horse rider rode into a bank foyer to sleep for the night, after having one too many for the road during a stopover at his local beergarden.
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The old advice, “Always put blood on top,” is perfectly sound, and therefore a pedigree sire should always be selected. A good record on the turf is desirable in the case of thoroughbreds, especially if it extends over several seasons, and a record of this kind is preferable to that of a horse that may [...]