A newly excavated horse cemetery in Germany dates to Roman times.

Well, who'd have thought it? The old war-horse turns out to be a thoroughbread; the circus was total theatre in disguise. Students of Cinema can stop combing the archives for neglected master-pieces.

When the old war-horse died in 1878, he was stuffed (or "mounted" as taxidermists insist) and presented to the military museum on Governor's Island in New York Harbor. Ten years later, Sheridan ...

As much as the $400,000 Man o' War Stakes (G2T) has only five starters, it can present a tricky test for older turf males.

allowing War Admiral to catch up. “Once a horse gives Seabiscuit the old look-in-the-eye,” Red Pollard, sidelined by an injury, had told Woolf the night before the race, “he begins to run to ...

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news ... In April 1968, I was a 21-year-old Air Force sergeant in Vietnam, assigned to an Army base camp surrounding ...