A primary school teacher has been charged with animal cruelty after a video appeared to show her punching and kicking a horse. Sarah Moulds was sacked from her position at the Mowbray Education Trust in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, last month after the footage was shared online. What happened to the Read more…
Following backlash from animal welfare groups and revelations about the sport’s history of neglecting animal welfare, modern pentathlon’s governing body, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), opted to remove horse riding from the sport from 2024 onwards and replace it with a different, as yet undecided Is horse riding Read more…
Instead of using cars as their form of transportation, the Amish use a very unique type of travel: a Horse & Buggy. They connect their carriage to one of their riding horses and that is how they travel on the public roads and get from place to place. What people Read more…
Great loads could be carried, including horses and livestock. Some ships were small enough to travel on rivers far into the East. Other were so large they could cross the Atlantic Ocean. Cargo ships were broad, warships narrow and with a dragon’s head on the prow. Did Vikings bring horses Read more…
German coach who PUNCHED a horse during Tokyo Olympics WON’T be prosecuted for animal cruelty after officials decide it was ‘was an exceptional psychological situation’ Why did the German coach punch the horse? The light punch came after Schleu, who was heading into the show jumping round with a commanding Read more…
The earliest form of a “carriage” (from Old Northern French meaning to carry in a vehicle) was the chariot in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BC. It was nothing more than a two-wheeled basin for a couple of people and pulled by one or two horses. It was light and quick and Read more…
Those vikings who made it to the Shetland Islands on the northern tip of Scotland would have found themselves surrounded by Shetland ponies. While this breed is even smaller than the Icelandic, they are actually the strongest horses in the world in relation to their size! What kind of horses Read more…
BALIOS and XANTHOS were a pair of immortal horses which the hero Peleus received from Poseidon at his marriage to the goddess Thetis. They drew the chariot of the couple’s son Akhilleus (Achilles) during the Trojan War. Did Achilles have a horse? Book 16 of the Iliad tells us that Read more…
In cities and towns, horse-drawn railed vehicles gave carriage to poor workers and the lower middle class. The upper middle class used buggies, as did farmers, while the rich had the more elegant 4-wheel carriages for local use. In the late 19th century, bicycles became another factor in urban personal Read more…
But the most famous war horse of all to return in glory was Warrior. His story, like the million other British horses who served, should never be forgotten. Warrior, a small sturdy bay thoroughbred, born in April 1908 a couple of miles from General Jack Seely’s home on the Isle Read more…