I was away! I came back! Here’s an unusually wacky round up of all things equine.
- Three deer jump into a horse race in Pennsylvania. (Seattle Times) (Video)
- This year, everyone wanted to be a horse, whether for graduation or for Hurricane Sandy. One of them even came to my Berlin book launch. (Buzzfeed)
- Colin Farrell rode a white horse. (Lainey Gossip)
- A nineteenth-century “chamber horse” – indoor exercise for discommoded horse riders. (Science Museum)
- Drill team: “like synchronized swimming on horseback.” (SFGate)
- Shania Twain rides into Caesar’s Palace in Vegas on a horse. (VH1)
- The Kansas City Chiefs’ football team insist on taking a victory lap with a real horse every time they score. The trouble is, their star quarterback is hippophobic. (Yahoo Sports)
- A Kiwi is ordered to stay away from Prince Charles on his next visit to New Zealand – because he wants to throw horse manure at the heir to the throne. (NBC)
- Why do racehorses have silly names? (CNN)
- US Interior Secretary threatened to punch a reporter investigating the sale of mustangs to slaughter. (LA Times)
- A miniature horse turns demon fundraiser for the Salvation Army (Salon, thanks to Ed Ward)
- A farmer denied permission to build a field shelter builds a giant chair and table instead (Twitter, thanks to Karen K) (ooops, Snoped!)