An amazing life: The real story behind equine charity founder Dorothy Brooke
From Scotland to Egypt, Dorothy Brooke rescued some 5000 WW1 horses from a life of misery and poor care.
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They were heroes: WWI war horses honored in new, permanent record
New site may be the single most inclusive collection of photos of US horses and mules in WW1 collected in one place.
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UK government moves to recognise animal sentience
Draft bill sets out that the government “must have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings in formulating and implementing government policy”.
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Showjumping legend Bill Steinkraus dies at 92
Steinkraus was the first US rider to win an individual Olympic jumping medal, taking gold in 1968.
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Luck of the Irish as Patrick Hogan’s racing success story continues
Revised edition of 2007 best seller updates the story of Patrick Hogan and Cambridge Stud.
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The rise and fall of Peter Moody: Black Caviar’s trainer tells all
Peter Moody tells all about his life in the racing industry – the good times and the bad.
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Real-world solutions needed to improve the welfare of horses, says charity boss
“We have to listen to each other, no matter where we are on the spectrum of animal rights or animal welfare,” says Roly Owers.
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A horse is a horse, of course — except when it isn’t
The puzzling stilt-legged North American horse proved to be an evolutionary dead end.
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Wild horses and resource management: Is government looking the other way?
Our natural resources (and very society) are now at risk by the inaction of some legislators and the willful wrongful actions of others.
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Most European donkey breeds face extinction threat – review
Donkey stocks in Europe have reduced by more than 80% since the middle of last century.
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Rare equines take first steppes to repopulate central Kazakhstan
Kulans make return to central Kazakhstan in project to bring back native species to the area.
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NZ’s War Horses commemorated with life-sized bronze
“Big, awesome, bronze War Horse” portrayed searching for his fallen rider.
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Lest we forget: Move to have “Every horse remembered” from WW1
Charity’s new campaign marks 100 years since the end of WW1, highlighting the contribution of working horses and donkeys past and present.
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The three great myths about America’s wild horses
These days most grazing herbivores wild or domestic have lobbies based-upon an economic foundation.
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America’s “Horse Soldiers” immortalized in film
Deployed in Afghanisation following the 2001 terror attacks, the Green Berets saddled up and took on the Taliban.
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War Horses 103 years on: Horse Heroes fund nears $1 million
Brooke’s Horse Heroes campaign remembering WW1 horses and mules by helping today’s working equines.
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Revisiting equestrian classics: Outdoor Baucherists
General François Faverot de Kerbrech’s “Methodical Dressage of the Riding Horse” (1891), with “Dressage of the Outdoor Horse” (1907), and Étienne Beudant’s “Horse Training, Outdoor and High School”.
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Ghosts on the Great Plains: Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill, and the battle for Standing Rock
The little known story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West – Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull – told through their time in Cody’s Wild West show in the 1880s.
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Africa beckons Britain’s “golden girl” Charlotte Dujardin for equine charity trip
Brooke global ambassador heading to Ethiopia later this month to see charity’s work first hand.
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Spreading the word: How the term “horse” migrated west with the Yamnaya people
Their westward migration brought innovations such as the wagon, dairy production – and the word “horse”.
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