Horses

You don't need to pony up a lot of cash for a victorious day at the track. Just ride these tips from Dave Litfin of the Daily Racing Form and Andy Serling of the New York Racing Association.

Two companies have recalled horse toys after two young children got the reins caught around their necks, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The children were freed by their parents and neither child was hurt. The CPSC said young children are in danger of strangulation from the reins...

A federal judge is allowing a government roundup of wild horses in northern Nevada. In an order issued today, U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks lifted an injunction that blocked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from rounding up the mustangs -- the agency halted the roundup on its first day when...

A California jury has awarded Magnum P.I. star Tom Selleck $187,000 after he was duped into buying a lame horse.Seller Dolores Cuenca was accused of selling Selleck a horse named Zorro with a medical condition without disclosing its history. Selleck paid $120,00 for the horse, which was intended...

The hopes for creating the world's largest wild horse sanctuary have dwindled in the last month. Last fall, Madeleine Pickens, wife of oilman T. Boone Pickens, proposed buying or leasing a million acres of land out West to save the 30,000 some wild horses that the Bureau of Land Management is...

We've written about pet owners struggling to keep their dogs and cats. But Black Beauty is being stung by the economy as well.The Associated Press wrote about it recently, and so have numerous local papers around the country. As The Daily Record, smack in the middle of Washington state, reports,...

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Madeleine and T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire couple who swooped in to New Orleans with a rented jet and saved hundreds of dogs and cats after Hurricane Katrina, announced this week they plan on saving 35,000 wild horses from potential slaughter by creating a new home for them. The horses --...

When people suffer financially, their animals face hardship, too. At the beginning of the year the Humane Society warned about about shelters being overwhelmed. Dogs and cats were losing their families when those families lost their homes. Now we're hearing about all kind of animals suffering in...