British girl Ashleigh Harris,18, recently won a landmark legal case after breaking her back falling from a horse. She was left paralyzed from the waist downwards at the age of just 14 and is now confined to a wheelchair. The horse, Polly Perks, belonged...
Horse-racing has a glamorous, well-heeled image, that of patrons enjoying a day out at the races, dressing up in their best and drinking champagne, etc. Not to mention the large sums of money involved, the thrill of seeing their horses come in first,...
Similar to a human one, a horse passport is a document enabling horses to be identified accurately and easily when transported across international borders. In the US, these ID forms are in mainly intended for animals who are taking part in the International...
It is a shocking fact that horses are the only animals who are legally permitted to be beaten in public. It should not happen at all, but British jockeys are legally allowed to hit horses around 7 or 8 times during the course of a race. That's bad enough...
If you love horseback riding then the UK offers countless gorgeous riding locations. Can’t decide where you want to head for your next riding getaway? Then check out these top 7 places to go horse riding in the UK! 1.Brecon Beacons National Park, Wa...
Horses are expensive animals to keep, and this is presumably why they are often found dumped in fields and other public places, frequently in a bad, neglected condition. Just lately, over the last month, there has been a spate of horses being aband...
I recently got interested in the Clydesdale breed after watching a documentary about them on TV, featuring a British actor Martin Clunes who owns a pair of these horses, and uses them to work the land on his farm. This is a breed of very large and super...
The adorable Shetland pony is one of the smallest breeds of horses, ranging in height from around 28 inches to the official maximum height of eleven hands high (eleven hands high in the UK, that is, and 11.2 hands for American Shetlands). They originally...
I thought this subject is something all horse-loving people should be aware of, if you are not already. There is currently a big scandal in Britain about horse-meat being found in foods that were labeled as beef! It has been in the news constantly since...
I have written a blog about this before for this website, but I am now moved to write another one on the same theme, as I am very upset to hear of the recent deaths in one day of several racehorses here in the UK. On 26 February, four horses were killed...
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