Researchers are helping uncover new information about the Y chromosome in horses, which will help owners identify optimal lineages for breeding and help conservationists preserve breed diversity.

Horses have played a critical role in shaping human society, but scientists are still piecing together the story of their domestication. Reading time 3 minutes Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a ...

They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province. But these ...

The year's first panel for the 2026 Thoroughbred OwnerView Conference Series March 17 covered the pros and cons of breeding to race, with an overall message calling for patience with this approach.

Rare horse breeds can be found all over the world, with many boasting a history of several centuries – even millennia. But ...

A centuries-old horse breed from the Caucasus is attracting renewed attention in Europe, as breeders and researchers work to protect a lineage that once came close to disappearing. The Karabakh horse ...