Some horses have special gaits, which are more comfortable for the rider than walk, trot or gallop. Now, a study by an international research team has revealed that these gaited horses most likely ...

AZLE -- Tara Lewis can't ride just any horse. Born with cerebral palsy, the 13-year-old can't even sit through a bumpy car ride without becoming unbearably uncomfortable. She usually has to press her ...

Horses in Iceland. The Vikings probably brought gaited horses back from England Tobias Seel/snapshot-photography/ullstein bild via Getty Images About a thousand years ...

Your back hurts. You're getting older. You don't even feel like jumping 2-foot fences on your hunter anymore. But you're not about to give up riding. Looking for a solution? How about a horse with ...

OCALA, Fla. (AP) - El is a giant among donkeys. No, really. Whisper’s Star of Rapha El, or El as he is known around the barn, is a gaited, mammoth Jack stud, with an emphasis on the mammoth. El, and ...

This 19th-century image shows a horse pacing. Note that the legs on each side move at the same time. (Credit: USC Digital Library/Wikimedia Commons) Horses normally move about in one of three ways: ...

With a leg up from an old wooden chair, Monica Barber swings into the saddle and off to the races. Or at least the paces, as she and black mare Nicki move through walk, trot, canter and low jumps at ...

Soring is a cruel and inhumane practice — period. That’s how the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service describes it, and that’s why there is a Horse Protection ...