Archive for the 'Horse News' Category

Have you seen this horse??

Sunday, May 24, a group of trail riders set off from Hahamongna Watershed Park in Pasadena.  During the ride, Lilly (pictured), a 5-year-old buckskin mare, slipped and lost her footing.  Her owner, Leslie Boyle, fell — and Lilly ran off.  So were is she?
Find out the full story and see her picture here

Recreational Horseback Riding For Seniors

I had an email a while back to ask me to provide information about horseback riding for seniors, so having found this article today, I thought I would bring it to your attention. A four-week recreational horseback riding session, will be offered April 3, 10, 24 and May 1 by the Horses of Hope Riding [...]

Think Before You Breed….

That’s the message from the British Horse Society and with the continual rise in running costs,  the large increase in horses at sancturaries and taken to horse refuges, there’s never been a more important time to ask horse owners to consider whether now is the right time to breed.  With over 1.35m horses in the [...]

Horses were tamed a millennium earlier than previously thought

Wow!  This is very interesting.  There is apparently new evidence to suggest horses were domesticated over a 1,000 years earlier than first believed to be the case.
It’s amazing what science and archaeology can uncover these days - and I have problems working out what I did 20 years ago!
This is a fascinating article which you [...]

You Have To Visit The Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Seriously, if you live anywhere near New York, or will be visiting New York before 24th May 2009, you have to go to see the display on horses at work. 
It begins with the story of the evolution of the horse over the past 55 million years and ends with a look at the symbiotic relationship [...]

Not To Be Poo Poo’d!!

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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Horse Bolts Through A Cinema

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 [...]

Don’t Slap A Police Horse

If you want to know what happens if you do, read the full news item here!!

Drunk man rides horse into bank!

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.
Read the full story here

The World’s Smallest Horse

This was shown on a TV show in the UK last November, hosted by comedian Graham Norton.
Enjoy!

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