Amarillo, Texas Donna Byrne is exhausted and saddened by the death of her horse, Jay, last week. When she rode out from Florida with two horses early in February she had little idea of the toll the journey would take on her way to Amarillo. Byrne rode Jay, […]
Cowgirl Donna Byrne packed up her two horses, Tonto and Jay, in Arcadia, Florida five months ago and took to the road, hoping to make it to Amarillo, Texas, and a new ranch job. She’s less than 80 miles from her destination, but she’ll arrive exhausted, beaten down […]
A man has pleaded guilty to an arson attack in which four horses were killed in Darwen, Lancashire. Matthew Roberts, 19, was given a three-year community order with special psychiatric supervision at Preston Crown Court on Monday. Roberts, a patient in a Northumberland psychiatric ward, admitted starting the […]
The Horseman’s drink that puts the “Giddy-up” into the Summertime Doldrums MAGNOLIA, TX – (SFHH) It’s 3 PM and you have just finished that last section of fencing in the back pasture. Of course you are a little worn out due to all of the help you had […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Broadway Kevin waited in the auction holding pen, a successful harness horse whose life was now worth less than the cost to take care of him. If the local Amish farmers bought him, he’d spend his last years pulling carriages over the countryside. If the […]
Bloomfield, N.Y. — She paints with enthusiasm, her whole body thrown into the creative process, particularly her head, which jerks from side to side, then up and down and around, mane bouncing all the while. She’s moody when it comes to colors, refusing to paint with blue for […]
With all of the bad news flying about us we tried to lighten things up over the weekend. This has not been a very good year for the horse, but although we are aware of the truth, it doesn’t hurt to recharge our batteries with some “Good News” […]
A former jump jockey and horse racing trainer, Bill Turner, rides a zebra called Zebedee to his local pub in Sherborne, Dorset. Bill Turner, 61, bought Zebedee from a game reserve in Holland for £4,500 and learned to ride the animal in just two weeks. Zebras are much […]
Horses on the Hill Over the years I have received a multitude of emails asking what can be done to halt the slaughter of the symbol of our national heritage, the American Horse. Often I have felt helpless in offering no more than a simple letter to the appropriate […]
What You Can Do to Help Save Cloud’s Herd and America’s Wild Horses Over 40% of America’s wild horses have been removed from the wild from 2000-2008 alone and if the agency responsible for managing our wild horses, the Bureau of Land Management, does not change we are […]
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