A Polish man is in trouble. The story involves a horse or horses, one of which was found hitched the front axle of his van. Beyond that, the details depend on whom you ask. The Daily Mail version goes like this: 55-year-old lumberjack Leszek Stepien (who might have had a nip of vodka--an officer said he was at twice the legal limit), loaded a stallion and a mare into the back of his son's van to take...
Every few years those-in-the-know declare equestrian is "in" and (at least for the next 15 minutes) the fashion mags fill with emaciated gals sitting/hanging/leaning on obviously sedated horses whose lead shanks and reins meander into unseen hands out of the frame. Well, it must be that time again because the New York Times tells me Gucci and Hermès are jumping into the world of show jumping sponsorship...
I'm not drunk--the horse is. That's what a woman allegedly told police when she was given a disorderly conduct ticket for riding a horse down the centerline of a highway in Six Mile, S.C., while intoxicated. A pedestrian alerted an officer on Saturday that the woman, Tracy Nadine Ellenburg, was riding down Main Street, television station WYFF reported. An officer found the horse tied to a bench...
Elmer Bandit, the 38-year-old competitive trail horse who broke the record for lifetime mileage last year , is one of our favorite examples of a geriatric horse. But a horse now on display at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse, Canada, has him beat by more than a nose. (Although definitely not a live nose.) The fossilized Yukon horse ( Equus lambei ) is estimated to be 26,000 years...
No theme this time. Just oddness. The SPCA is investigating after four zebras recently died at the Greater Vancouver Zoo. According to the report in the Langley Advance , the animals died of exertional myopathy after two Cape buffalo were introduced into their enclosure. The report states that the buffalo were able to interact with the zebras and other enclosure residents, which included ostriches...
