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Therapy Horses Die in Stable Fire
 A fire destroyed a stable on Sunday at Pine Dell Farm, killing half a dozen therapy horses. The horses were lifelong partners and provided therapy for young people. The two women caretakers living inside made it out, but six horses in the stabl
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Five Arabian Horses Disappear
 An Elbert County woman says a thief took advantage of the thick fog overnight and made off with five of her beloved Arabian horses on Sunday night. When she heard her stallions screaming, Stephanie Wind went outside to see what was causing the co
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Economic Downturn Hits Police Horses
Mounted police units in San Diego, Tulsa, Camden, and Boston have been hit hard by budget cuts. Napoleon, a 10-year equine veteran of Charleston, S.C.,'s police department, was recently put out to pasture, literally, with five other police hors
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Rescue Horses to Perform at Fete Cheval
Smarty Sides, Tucker, Dirty During, Babylon, Smart As Lil, and Pimento are six rescue horses that will perform at Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue in Loxahatchee, Florida at the Fete Cheval on Friday, March 11, 2011, in Wellington, Florida, presented by Fo
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BLM to Cut Back on Horse Roundups
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it will scale back costly wild horse roundups that some critics say are inhumane.
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Abandoned Horses in South Wales
A small town in South Wales is being overrun by a pack of 250 wild horses thought to have been abandoned by gypsies who could not afford to feed them. Five of the horses have been killed when they were hit by cars and others are starving because
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Suspect Identified in Shooting of Pony
Authorities have identified the person they say is responsible for the shooting of a wild horse on Assateague Island National Seashore park. The 28-year-old mare was found dead by a hunter on January 15 and reported to park rangers the next day.
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Thieves Steal Horse Hair
Thieves are sneaking into stables and scalping horse tales and manes for money, leaving them mutilated and disfigured. Apparently the motive for the animal cruelty is cash. There's a black market for horse hair, which is used in the bow of viol
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Horse Rescued from Snowy Ravine
Firefighters, veterinarians, friends and neighbors helped with a challenging rescue of a horse stuck at the bottom of a ravine in heavy snow near Steamboat Springs this week. Apparently the 15-year-old Palomino horse broke [no-glossary]out of its p
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Former Stable Care-taker Arrested
A former caretaker at a Norco stable was arrested Thursday on suspicion of stealing saddles and other property of people who boarded horses at the stables. Dennis Matthew Price, 20, of Eastvale, was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center i