During their daily training sessions, they’re also taught to stand ... t dissimilar to how we prepare off-track Thoroughbreds for their first show (or trainers prepare horses for their first race).

Scott Banga moves around Paris with ease, his sure hands connecting and fastening leather straps on the Percheron draft horse’s broad body as he talks. “It’s beauty. It’s grace. It’s Miss United ...

Willow, left, and Summer are two of the horses at Glen Oaks Equestrian Center in Glen Carbon. GLEN CARBON — Cailin Messer can’t imagine life without horses. The 2010 Edwardsville High School graduate ...

When Di Smalley and her husband married 32 years ago, he always had wanted to have a horse. “We bought a horse and they began multiplying like rabbits,” said Di Smalley, president and CEO of Mercy ...

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, one of the most prolific trainers and influences in horse racing history, has been hospitalized in Louisville, and will not return to training, according to Lukas ...

NAVARINO (WLUK) - A Shawano County horse arena is holding an event this week that is a first-of-its-kind for the stable. On Thursday, June 13, theSpinning B Performance Horses and Arena is holding a ...

Deputy Robert Steele of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office trains his horse Blackjack to remain calm and follow his lead in times of crisis. Steele, a member of the sheriff’s Mounted Enforcement Unit ...