12 Wild Horse Breeds Around the World (and the Only One That’s Truly Wild) On March 1, 2026, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) estimated that 61,523 horses were roaming public land in the American West. Not one of them is a wild animal in the scientific sense. That surprises a lot of horse fans. […]

On October 4, 1981, at the Deerfield Fair in New Hampshire, a pair of Belgians weighing 4,350 lb combined dragged a 22,000 lb sled 66 inches across dry clay. That is about five times their own body weight. UPI reported it as a new world horse-pulling record. It is also the best-documented pull we found […]

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” It gets pinned on Winston Churchill more than anyone. But the line was already in print by April 1859. Churchill was born in 1874. That’s the problem with the top-ranking lists of horse riding quotes. They run […]