The 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act said: “Wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death”.

Horses do not function through metaphors; they function through laws of physics and dynamics that were previously unknown but are now well explained.

Older horses in a recent Australian study were found to have many more eye-related problems than their owners realised.

Horsetalk, after 28 years, has reached the end of the trail. It has been quite a ride. We are grateful to those who have shared their science, informed opinions and advice over the years. We will ...

The opportunity of a break in new surroundings, with fresh routines in place of the monotony of everyday working life, sounds idyllic to most people, but the evidence is far from conclusive for ...

The use of straw for bedding and the feeding of dry hay cannot be recommended for performance horses, according to the authors of a just-published study.

A horse's optimal temperature range is very different to that of humans. When we use ourselves as gauges, we risk over-rugging our horses.

A piece of Indian cave art depicting a chariot drawn by four horses was painted up to 4300 years ago. Matt Windsor reports on the work’s extraordinary complexity and the woman who crossed the ...

I came to the realization that even if I believed that I loved the horses, what I was doing, and have been trained to believe, was about loving to win more than loving the horse.

A Swedish study of injuries in horse-riding mishaps has left researchers wondering whether regulations and safety equipment may have reduced the number of serious injuries.

Sixty-five percent of bacteria retained within the bacterial community of the hindgut of horses over a six-week period whilst on a uniform diet.

Researchers in California have announced plans for a clinical trial of an experimental laminitis drug based on an insect compound which shows potential against the debilitating condition.