Like a perfectly worn-in pair of cowboy boots, no horse breed is one size fits all. Depending on whether you're a new rider, a skilled equestrian, or a rancher like Ladd Drummond, finding the right ...

In the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 100 miles from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, there’s a small sliver of land that is populated entirely by wild horses. These horses — about 450 ...

Thoroughbred Thoroughbreds are the sleek, lanky horses that you see at American racetracks. They are bred for speed, and they gallop at around forty miles per hour. This is fairly common knowledge. I ...

Horses have been part of human history for millennia, carrying warriors, farmers, and explorers across every kind of terrain. Yet a few breeds trace their bloodlines so far back that they bridge the ...

Horses were the engines that moved into place the very foundations of human civilization. Since ancient times, people have bred horses to harness their strength—for use in transportation, agriculture, ...

A new study by Dr. Gus Cothran, professor emeritus at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), has found that the Cleveland Bay (CB) horse breed has the third-lowest ...

This story was originally published in 2016. Watch the 2018 Kentucky Derby live coverage on NBC Saturday beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET. Thoroughbreds are considered the fastest horses in the world and ...

Emblems of both strength and beauty, draft horses were once a mainstay of highly productive societies. They were powerful engines of war, agriculture, and transportation, without which civilization as ...

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