Posts tagged as Horses
Here's A Vote For For Horse Of The Year
"Zenyatta's now in a stall at Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Ky., awaiting her first breeding date, with the stallion to be announced soon. On the other side of Lexington, Blame will stand at stud and try to reproduce greatness at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky. Some 1,200 miles away, one of them will be named Horse of the Year on Monday at the Eclipse Awards, the sport's Tonys, Emmys and Oscars." READ MORE
There Is A Picture Of Two Horses You Should See
Click on this link to see a pretty amazing picture of stallions fighting over who gets to do sex to the lady horses. Seriously, it's good.
Horsies To Get New Pre-Whipping Ditty At Belmont Stakes
While the vast majority of the general public only tunes in to watch the Belmont Stakes if there's a chance that they might see the winning of the Triple Crown, it is still a race beloved by traditionalists, compulsive gamblers, and fetishists who find themselves aroused by tiny men beating a horse with a stick around a mile-and-a-half oval. Whatever the reasons they watch the race, viewers will notice something different this year: the horses are going to ride the jockeys. Kidding! They're changing some song or something. READ MORE
Horses Give A Lick For Wounded Pal
Your "awww" of the day comes from, of all places, Knifecrime Island: "A HORSE shot twice with a crossbow by callous yobs survived after four fellow steeds spent three hours taking turns – to LICK the wound clean. Mare Zeta came within a whisker of death after one of the bolts bounced off her rib while another lodged an inch from her lung. Evil louts blasted the 20-year-old – a competitor in show-jumping and dressage events across the UK – in the stomach as she grazed in a field. But four other competition horses in the same field 'nursed' Zeta by nuzzling her for three-and-a-half hours while taking turns to lick the wound." READ MORE
Diminutive Bronco Bucks Illness
A number of you are always, "Yes, we get it, you like bears, but what about the ponies?" Well, do not let it be said that we are equinophobic here at the Awl. Here, for the horsey set, is a story about the world's tiniest stallion. He was sick, but he's much better now! One, two, three: AWWW. Okay, that ought to hold you for a while.
Shocking Stallion Slaughter Perturbs Paper
Say this for the Post: when they have a great headline, they don't hide it under a bushel. The tragic story of three retired police horses who were euthanized because it would be too difficult to transport them to another farm-a situation which everyone who has once been a child might think is the nice way of saying "had them put down"-is gifted with the remarkable title "NYPD Glue." The article itself is rather unusual in its shock and horror over the whole affair, given that the Post's editorial line seems to suggest a desire to euthanize all the retired humans from our city's civil service, lest they draw on the generous pensions their despicable union representatives negotiated in good faith, but I guess people feel different about the ponies than they do about cops and firemen.
America Decides: What Should We Do With The Horse Buggerer?
The titillating story of South Carolinian Rodell Vereen, "busted for having sex with a horse, while on probation for having sex with the same horse," seems far less prurient when it is presented as an opportunity for citizens to express their opinions on the subject in the form of an Internet poll. That said, the lack of an option suggesting that Vereen do the right thing and marry the long-suffering object of his affections is rather revealing as to how far our values have fallen in this country. (You may also enjoy the comment section on the article, which has somehow turned into a conversation about race. Maybe President Obama should invite Rodell and the horse to the White House for a beer!)
