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Topic: Horses

Mage #8, ridden by jockey Javier Castellano races during the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 06, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Racehorse deaths aren't a mystery

Rae Hodge
Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) and Lloyd Owen (Elendil) in "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" (Ben Rothstein/Prime Video)

Galadriel, "Rings of Power" horse girl

Alison Stine
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II with the Imperial State Crown resting on top is carried by the Bearer Party as it departs Westminster Abbey during the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19, 2022 in London, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, in photos

Alison Stine
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and a border patrol agent on horseback menacing a Haitian migrant. (Salon illustration via Fox News/Getty Images)

Abbott endorses border horsemen tactics

Brett Bachman
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"Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race" by Lara Prior-Palmer (Catapult/Salon)

The unlikely winner of the toughest race

Erin Keane
In this Jan. 23, 2015, photo, wild horses are seen during a BLM tour in the Pine Nut Mountains just outside of Dayton, Nev. Under the threat of another legal battle, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has quietly pulled the plug on a public-private partnership in northern Nevada aimed at shrinking the size of a wild horse herd through the use of contraceptives, according to documents The Associated Press obtained on Tuesday, May 10, 2016. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) NO SALES; NEVADA APPEAL OUT; SOUTH RENO WEEKLY OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Federal moves to rein in wild horses

Dan Ross - FairWarning
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A plan to kill wild horses

Matthew Rozsa
Horses are routinely exploited and cruelly mined for their hormones (AP/Carlos Giusti)

Hannah Lownsbrough - Alternet
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Patti Smith's gutsy interview

Peter Machen
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-688576p1.html'>biletskiy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Wayne Pacelle - The Dodo

Prachi Gupta
(ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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I hate my amazing life

Cary Tennis
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Flirting, with horses

Cary Tennis
(Allison Meier, via Hyperallergic)

Hoofbeats in Grand Central

Allison Meier - Hyperallergic
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Animal attraction

Laura Miller
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