The trouble with the arabian horse community
Everyone has an idea what the other guy needs to do to fix his problem but no one is really talking about the ‘elephant in the room’.
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Features & The Arts
Equestrian features from around the world.
The problem with Boy Erasers
I said to Feed Woman the other day, “Who are these young turkeys who rally-drive along our gravel road?”
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Geldoff spills the beans on … Geldoff
It’s a freakishly busy life being a horse. You humans have no idea. Sometimes I wonder where we find the time to fit humans into our daily lives. I guess that’s just one of the burdens we bear.
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New evidence rewrites time for American horse extinction
Researchers who removed ancient DNA of horses and mammoths from permanently frozen soil in central Alaskan permafrost dated the material at between 7600 and 10,500 years old.
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Hundreds at Phar Lap unveiling
Hundreds of people turned up at Timaru’s racecourse this afternoon for the long-awaited unveiling of the bronze statue of Phar Lap.
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Bone of contention over Phar Lap’s skeleton
Phar Lap’s skeleton does not strike the elegant pose one would expect from one of the world’s best-known racehorses.
Read moreLife-size Phar Lap emerges in clay
The spectacular life-size figure of legendary racehorse Phar Lap has brought back to life the exploits of the horse known as the Red Terror of the Antipodes.
Read moreHorses get a taste of the world of supermodels
A ton of imagination and a lot of hard work by advertising photographer Julian Wolkenstein has delivered a series of three remarkable images — horses with hairstyles like you’ve never seen them.
Read moreTesting reveals ancient tools were used to butcher horses
Biochemical testing of 13,000-year-old stone tools in Colorado shows that some were used to butcher ice-age horses and camels that roamed North America until their extinction.
Read moreHorses show ability in search and rescue role
“To horses this is just a game. They have known all their lives how to follow scents.”
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Chariots of Desire
A miniature horse who grew to be a giant among his peers was the unexpected inspiration behind the re-emergence of the chariot from the shadows of history.
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The American mustang
Highly prized by the Native Americans, the mustangs would go on to symbolise generations while substantially changing their way of life.
Read moreScientist brings hope for rare horse breeds
Phillip Sponenberg has been working to save the Colonial Spanish horses for three decades, writes Susan Trulove.
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Boy’s find fills gap in horse evolution
A startling discovery by a young Californian boy has helped fill a key gap in the evolution of the horse.
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The battle of Beersheba
The battle for Beersheba has been called the last great cavalry charge. Some dispute this, but there is little doubt that October 31, 1917, marked the last significant and successful cavalry charge in wartime.
Read moreDid Egyptian King Tutankhamun die in a fall from a horse?
There is now mounting evidence that the boy king died following a fall, a theory championed by Egyptological writers Andrew Collins and Chris Ogilvie-Herald.
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Frank Levinson: Following the way of the horse
“The Maui Horse Whisperer” has a plain, old-fashioned word that sums up his approach: Trust.
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New Zealand’s wild Kaimanawa horses
Between 1858 and 1875, Major George Carlyon imported Exmoor ponies from England and crossed them with local horses to produce a breed called the Carlyon, and during the 1870s some of these were released into the Ranges, and the distinctive ancestry of the Exmoor ponies (mealie muzzles and underbellies) is evident in many of the Kaimanawa Wild Horses today.
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