- Professional child jockeys (as young as 4) in Indonesia (SBS)
- Virtual racehorses on the game Digiturf sell for $7,000 and $9,000. (ESPN)
- The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration goes ahead, although welfare concerns knock out some leading competitors. DIg into the comments here. (Tennessean)
- The number of horses slaughtered in Ireland this year appears to have fallen by half since 2012 – a good thing. The government are still organising a horse disposal scheme. (Irish Independent)
- Mongolians and their horses (The Diplomat)
- The results of a study into the deaths of feral walers culled by helicopter gunmen in Australia. (Horse Talk NZ)
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Thanks for those links. The one about the child jockeys was an eye opener.