Horse-drawn carriages ride past the Eiffel Tower Sunday Nov. 24, 2013, during a traditional parade to promote the Paris Horse Show that will take place from Nov. 30 to Dec. 8. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
Obviously this is a story out of the UK. It's the Britishiest British story ever Britted. The scene: Coddington, Nottinghamshire. We deal not with a fox wearing a feathered cap and tunic, stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but with a horse chosen to be a bridesmaid. Putting the mare in marriage.
A woman in Manchester, UK, tried to order at the drive-thru window at McDonald's, but was denied. The problem? She was on horseback. Clearly in the midst of a Big Mac Attack (so hungry she could eat a horse?), the woman was undeterred: She decided to enter the restaurant and order at the counter. And she took the…
Hasbro — the toy company behind Transformers, GI Joe and My Little Pony, loves to squeeze every cent possible out of a brand. Hence toys turning into TV shows and movies. And now, with MLP, there's a new "brand extension," Equestrian Girls.
Humans have expected horses to trundle us and all our crap around ever since our sore-footed ancestors came upon the first majestic equus gazing alone in a vale and thought, “Huh, that thing could totally carry some of us around for a little while, just until our corns go away.” Before horses knew what was happening,…
The American Girl company leaves many feeling torn between its promotion of pricey consumerism and the dolls' celebration of history and education. One thing is certain though, the story of Felicity and her horse Penny is one that offers hope to the suburban girl-the horseless girl with a wild heart.
Probably my favorite part of watching the storm coverage yesterday (for hours, obsessively, swaddled cozily in survivor’s guilt out here in Seattle) was when CNN, scrambling for new Sandy updates, took a lengthy detour to discuss adorable ponies.
Mitt Romney's visit to the UK would have been disastrous enough if he'd just shut up after pissing off the British press, the Prime Minister, and the mayor of London. But he had to take it a step farther and go beyond insulting his host country and their Olympic efforts — in an attempt to get people to think he was…
On Saturday, Chantal Sutherland became the first female jockey to win the Hollywood Gold Cup in the race's 73-year history. Hooray! Sutherland successfully piggybacked on an exceptionally swift-footed quadruped named Game On Dude, earning a cool half million in prize money and a chance to compete in the $5 million…
When you make fun of crap on the internet for a living, you learn incredibly surprising lessons about the utter touchiness of strangers. Hypersensitivity to the point of acting like a dick about it is not only unwarranted, it ends up ultimately doing the overreactor's cause an injustice, as reflects poorly on the cause …
Very important news from the increasingly entwined worlds of dressage horsery and Presidential politics — Ann Romney was once sued for fraud after selling a horse that a veteranarian described as pumped full of more pain killers than he'd ever seen pumped into any horse, ever. In other words, Ann had herself a High…
Rafalca, Mitt Romney's frou frou Olympics-bound dressage horse, nets the family a $77,000 tax credit per year. Since Normals who produce mere human children only get a $1,000 tax credit per child, it therefore stands to reason that Rafalca Romney is worth 77 human children. Certainly more than your entire family.
Because the Romneys are just normal, regular, down-to-earth human people like you and me—and certainly not extremely lifelike robot replicants that eat civil rights and poop out money—it's totally normal that they not only own a horse, but also had the time and resources to teach it to fucking dance. The Romneys'…
Scandal from the Santorum camp: the bevested holy roller with less self awareness than a dog licking its balls during a dinner party has downplayed his past — and that past could destroy his reputation as someone with almost completely repugnant views. It seems that throughout his political career, while comparing gay…
This would actually be an ingenious marketing scheme — that is, it would be ingenious if horses were people. It takes an exceptionally gentle horsie to not crack those delicate iPad screens with its hooves, and more cracked screens equals more cash money for Apple because, as well know, horses can't talk and so…
Congress, in its ceaseless effort to offer creative palliatives to the soothe the country's economic afflictions, has decided that it's okay to send that pony you got for your tenth birthday and neglected because you were only prepared to brush its mane and feed it sugar cubes once a week to the slaughterhouse.…
Yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hit Calgary on their tour of Canada, where they donned cowboy hats and had a knee-slappin' good time.
In what may be the very best article the Daily Mail has ever published, Rebecca Evans drops her monocle into her cup of Earl Grey tea as she reports that there was a scuffle at the Royal Ascot — the Queen's favourite racing event, which is celebrating its 300th year.
Yesterday, Prince Harry and Prince William — sorry, the Duke Of Cambridge — played in the Sentebale Polo Cup at Coworth Park Polo Club, Ascot, Berkshire. William played for team Tusk and Prince Harry played for Sentebale. Tusk won. But. More important: The press is breathlessly reporting that Harry "removed his…
Twenty-three year old Rosie Napravnik learned to ride horses before she could walk. This weekend, she will be the jockey on a horse called Pants On Fire, and possibly be the first woman to win the Kentucky Derby. According to CBS News, only five women have ever ridden the in the Kentucky Derby. Not one of them…
Analisa writes: "For the equestrians on Jez! My fur kid, Rosie. And my other fur-kid, Grace. Grace & Rosie=BFFs."
[England, February 11: Dickens (right), a horse that has been with the Greater Manchester Police force for 15 years, and Warwick, who has been with the force for four years, on their last day of work before retiring. While most police horses have a working life of eight to 10 years, Dickens has been working for the…
[Meet Selma's horse, Taffy! Burbank, November 18. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
[Lousville, KY, November 6: Zenyatta crosses the finish line in second place during the Breeders' Cup World Championships yesterday. This is the first race the mare has ever failed to win. Image via Getty.]
Faced with an out of control feral horse population, the state of Wyoming is considering slaughtering the animals for meat. Sad.
Today Oprah's guest was Einstein, a five-month-old horse
TheHorseTailor.com specializes in equine fashion, because the only thing horses love more than humans riding them is humans dressing them in constricting costumes! We find the Scooby Doo, Pink Panther, and Batman outfits the most fetching (read: horrifying).
[Surrey, July 17. Image via INFDaily.]
