Painter Felice House created her series, Re-Western, as a reimagining of favourite Western movies, in response to her frustration at the gender division typically seen in Western films. In her work, the accomplished figurative painter features female leads in the roles traditionally filled by male cowboys such as Clint Eastwood and John Wayne.

It often seems like sentences for animal cruelty are never enough, which is why this ruling on a breeder from Armstrong, BC is a welcome result. “I believe that it sends a clear message that the courts and society will not tolerate animal cruelty,” says Kathy Woodward with the BC SPCA.

The oldest DNA ever sequenced came from the frozen remains of a horse more than half a million years old discovered in Canada’s west-central Yukon Territory. Thought to be an impossible project even by the coordinator, Dr. Ludovic Orlando of the University of Copenhagen, one of the many revelations included that the shared ancestors of all horses, donkeys and zebras lived more than four million years ago.

Retirement homes for horses can be hard to find, but if you’re one of Two-Time US Olympic team gold medalist and FEI World Cup Final winner Beezie Madden’s horses, you’ve got it made. Most recently a fan favourite Cortes ‘C’ will be joining the ranks of many other greats, including Authentic who won three Olympic medals in his career.

A young stallion in Courtenay, BC, is recovering and has “barely a scratch” after tumbling nearly 20 metres down a creek slope on April 14, 2017. Owner Gary Hunt noticed the horse missing at evening feeding time, and found him at the bottom of a large creek that runs through his 16-hectare property on Vancouver Island. The horse had landed under a waterfall after the ledge he was standing on collapsed. Comox Valley Ground Search and Rescue and several neighbours assisted Comox Valley RCMP in the dramatic rescue…

About 35 firefighters and search-and-rescue team members from Grande Prairie, Beaverlodge, and Hythe responded to the emergency call when ten horses fell through an ice-covered slough near Grande Prairie, Alberta. The incident occurred on Sunday, April 16, 2017, about 65 kilometres west of Grande Prairie, where the herd had wandered onto the ice before falling through. All ten horses were removed from the ice by 6 pm, although three later died of exhaustion and injury…

Defending Champion Michael Jung Seeking Third Consecutive Title - Lexington, KY - April 11, 2017 - Olympic Gold and Silver medalist Michael Jung of Germany, the two-time defending Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event champion and winner of the 2016 Rolex Grand Slam, heads the list of top riders, including Olympic, World and European champions, entered for the 2017 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Presented by Land Rover. Known as the "Best Weekend All Year," the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event returns to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, April 27-30…

Who didn’t have a poster of their celebrity crush hanging on the wall when they were a teenager? Equestrians have a similar feeling about meeting Carl Hester, Ian Millar, Mark Todd or any of their favourite “big names.”

Normally under a horse is the last place we want to be but Photographer Andrius Burba gives us this unique and entertaining look at our favourite four-legged animal.

I for one will never stop believing in these beautiful and magical creatures, but recently scientists have found proof of them roaming the planet around 29,000 years ago. Granted they looked more like a rhinoceros than a horse and the “Elasmotherium sibiricum” lacked any magical abilities. The study published in the American Journal of Applied Sciences revealed they were around 9000 pounds, 15 feet long and six feet tall. The discovery of the fossilized “unicorn” skull was a complete shock to researchers given they were thought of to have gone extinct 350,000 years ago.