Equine News

BillboardFor Lyle Lovett, Horses Provide Anonymity and a Connection To DadBillboardDecades after being given his first horse at the age of 2, which was kept on his grandparents' farm in Klein, Texas, Lyle Lovett purchased that house, and took to th...

BillboardHow A&M's Jerry Moss Shifted From Music to Horses and Keeps Leading the Derby PackBillboard"We've had some great luck," says Moss of what has turned out to be a 40-year run of thoroughbred horse ownership that began in th...

USA TODAYWhat makes Kentucky Derby horses so specialUSA TODAYThe 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby is Saturday, with at least 160,000 fans and more than $100 million in bets expected. Twenty horses are entered to compete, all three-year-old Thoroughb...

SB NationHorse racing betting: Terms, tips, and explanationsSB NationSome players rely exclusively on past performances, others are pure physical handicappers (meaning they watch the horses prior to the race to pick out which ones look the best), some ...

Fort Worth Star TelegramKentucky Derby horse Girvin has strong North Texas tiesFort Worth Star TelegramNorth Texas horse racing fans rooting for regional pride over their wallets can turn an eye during Saturday's Kentucky Derby toward Girvin, the p...

New York TimesCustom Stalls and Air-Ride Suspension: How Derby Horses Travel in StyleNew York TimesHorses are famously expensive animals to buy, board, feed, ride and enter into competitions. But moving them from place to place — be it in trailers, l...

Los Angeles TimesMini-horses will appear at this Kentucky airport just in time for Derby DayLos Angeles TimesLittle horses also will strut their stuff Friday — off the track at a Kentucky airport. Miniature therapy horses at Cincinnati/Northern Kentu...

News of the HorseMan Who Burned 13 Horses to Death ArrestedNews of the HorseLowell, Michigan – As reported in April, 13 therapy horses at The Barn for Equine Learning were locked in a barn, the barn set on fired, and all 13 perished in the flames. Au...

NJ.comBrooke honors WWI equine soldiers with launch of Horse HeroesNJ.comHN0517 One million horses and mules served in World War One, but when the war ended most were abandoned or slaughtered. Dorothy Brooke set out to help the survivors and today The ...

Washington PostForeign-born horses are a mystery at the Kentucky Derby, 100 years after one first won itWashington PostWhen a horse named for a Persian polymath, Omar Khayyám, stretched “his fiery nostrils” and then his “blaze face” showed in ...