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First Look: “The Mustang”
Focus Features will open THE MUSTANG in select theaters on March 15, 2019 after its World Premiere at THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL in January.
Wild Horse Preservation
Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center
The Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the Pryor Mountain mustangs, their evolution, history, habitat needs and historical significance.
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60 Minutes: The Polo team that uses Cloned Horses
You don’t expect to hear that some of the most cutting-edge biotechnology is now part of the elite game of polo, “the ancient sport of kings.”
But on a trip to Argentina last December, we went to a big polo match — and discovered that several of the champion horses on the field were clones.
Jane Smiley’s Top 10 Books about Horses
When I was learning to ride horses, manuals were essentially worked-over cavalry manuals: horses were to obey, and the rider’s job was to know how to give orders. That changed in the 1960s, when trainers who had never been in the cavalry began to pay attention to horse behaviour.
“We’re not winning in politics, at least we win in horses”
Rahwan, an Arabian colt, and his owner, Ashraf are travelling from the occupied West Bank to Israel to compete in one of the most prestigious Arabian horse shows in the Middle East.
But there’s no guarantee they’ll be allowed through the Israeli checkpoint to get there.
Salt River Horses Get Long-Term Protection
The agreement allows a 2016 law to take effect. The horses will no longer be considered stray wildlife and the law makes it illegal to slaughter, harass, shoot, injure or kill the horses.
Arkansas Prisons Selling Horses at Auction in October
Arkansas’ prison system is planning to sell some of its horses at auction next month.
Department of Correction spokeswoman Shea Wilson says people will have a chance to bid on about 35 retired horses, colts and mules at the agency’s third horse auction Oct. 5 in Benton, Ark.
Navajo Nation supports NM horse slaughterhouse
Because of the horse overpopulation, the tribe already is rounding up and selling wild horses, Zah said. Some of those, he said, end up being shipped to Mexico.
Supporters of a return to domestic horse slaughter argue it is a more humane solution than shipping unhealthy and starving animals to facilities south of the border for slaughter under unregulated and often cruel circumstances.
Horse Fossil Yields Astonishingly Old Genome
Researchers have recovered DNA from a nearly 700,000-year-old horse fossil and assembled a draft of the animal’s genome from it. It is the oldest complete genome to date by a long shot–hundreds of thousands of years older than the previous record holder, which came from an archaic human that lived around 80,000 years ago.
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