Meet Fancy, 37, the world’s oldest horse — and her lifelong caretaker

Guinness World Records has declared Fancy the world’s oldest horse. She will be 38 in April.

When a horse whinnies, there's more than meets the ear

A new study finds that horse whinnies are made of both a high and a low frequency, generated by different parts of the vocal ...

Museum boosts conservation—by having visitors smell horse manure

Guests are reported to benefit from sniffing manure of the endangered Kiso horse—at two different stages of fermentation.
CNN

Opinion: I’m a former champion equestrian. It pains me to see so many horses dying on the racetrack

Editor’s note: Marty Irby is the senior advisor at the Animal Wellness Foundation in Los Angeles, CA and an eight-time equestrian world champion. The views expressed here are his own. Read more ...
Mercury News

Horse racing leaders consider Paris Olympics equestrian scandal a lesson for their sport

PARIS (AP) — Horse welfare has been a major topic of conversation around the equestrian competition at the Olympics, and the scandal involving champion rider Charlotte Dujardin has attracted the ...
Gizmodo

Nordic Equestrian Project Asks Horses if They Want Blankets or Not

When conditions call for it, I put a blanket on the horse I’ve just ridden without a second thought, and certainly without asking for his or her permission. A project dubbed HorseVoice, however, is ...

With horse whinnies, there's more than meets the ear

A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies, a new study in Current Biology shows.