Tag: Horses
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Despite their reputation, mules are smarter than horses says long-time muleteer
Nobel Prize-winning American writer William Faulkner once said of everyone’s favorite icon of stubbornness: “A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.” Retired Cheyenne, Wyo., outfitter and mule breeder David Coates, 74, disagrees. Coates, who has been training horses and mules most of his life,…
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New Denver museum exhibit to feature history of horses in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save What would we lose in a world without horses? Hippophiles, don’t hyperventilate at the thought. (That’s a fancy word for horse lovers.) It’s one of the questions staff at History Colorado, a Denver museum that specializes in telling the stories of our fair state, asked…
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Colorado Humane Society rescues 2 horses in Fremont County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The owner of two neglected horses surrendered the animals to the Colorado Humane Society after the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office responded to a welfare check on the horses last week, deputies said in a news…
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Englewood’s Seth DeMoor, Crested Butte’s Stevie Kremer win Pikes Peak Marathon
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ali Papillon stayed ahead of schedule Sunday in his first official run in the Pikes Peak Marathon. Two years ago, Papillon chased Kilian Jornet, one of the world’s best trail runners and Papillon’s favorite, down…
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National Western Stock Show rides back in 2022
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Giddy up! The yaks are back. The National Western Stock Show announced Wednesday the “best 16 days in January” will return for 2022 from Jan. 8-23. After the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions foiled the 2021 show — the first time that’s happened in 106 years — organizers are…