It has been decided, I believe fairly conclusively, that the modern domestic horse comes from the lower Volga-Don region which is now part of Russia. This is thanks to a study published on October 20, 2021 called ‘The origins and spread of domestic horses from …
Garry White is facing a possible suspension having been accused of injecting four horses before a race with an unnamed substance but probably a performance enhancing substance of some sort. His four runners were scratched from last Sunday’s Hawkesbury meeting after an investigation by the …
NEWS AND COMMENT – COLORADO, USA: The Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act 1971 is an American statute which protects wild horses in that country. It was created because there was a time in the 1950s when wild horses were commercially exploited. A campaigner, Velma …
NEWS AND COMMENT-TASMANIA: The news is that PETA is using the Australian state of Tasmania to establish that whipping a horse during a race is a form of animal cruelty and should be banned. It seems that they’ve chosen Tasmania because they have good animal …
How many racehorses are slaughtered each year in the UK? Answer: thousands often under inhumane circumstances. Sadly, we can more or less answer the question in the first sentence from an article in The Times today about the cruel death of racehorses as shown in …
Amboy, Illinois, USA: this was filmed on a farm and the boy’s mother says that she breeds a “few select Gypsy Vanners”. She is a stay-at-home mum who has four children. The video is cute. I always like to see a close relationship between children …
Dr Desmond Morris says that when a racehorse loses a race the trainer and the jockey have to find fancy reasons as to why it happened other than the fact that the horse is not a fast runner in order to ensure that the horse’s …
One horsepower is the force needed to move 33,000 pounds a foot in a minute. The Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist, who decided this was James Watt. He wanted to make the power of steam engines more understandable. He lived (1736-1819) in a time …
Yes, horses are one of a rare group of species who appear to have self-awareness and are able to recognise themselves in a mirror. The testing process is called mirror self-recognition (MSR). The degree of recognition appears to be variable and is not a black-and-white …
