When her horse took off toward a different trail, the rider decided to let him go for it, not realizing that his goal was to ...

A pair of orphaned racehorse foals have been adopted by a shire horse in Devon. Sammy the shire horse had recently lost her own foal when the thoroughbreds, whose own mothers had died, were ...

'If there's anyone that could feed and care for two thoroughbred foals it would be a shire horse, so I thought it worth a try,' said Jess. 'Sammy's foal had been 100 kilos at birth and the ...

It turns out happy endings can occur in our somewhat troubled world - look no further than the tale of Sammy the Shire horse and her heroic raising of the thoroughbred filly foals Mouse and Tracey..

A foal belonging to Asia's last remaining wild horse is thriving thanks to an unexpected hero: a domesticated horse named ...

Sapphire, the Shire Horse, with her new foal which Cannon Hall Farm has called Midnight Beauty because she was born on the stroke of midnight. By Emma Ryan. Senior Reporter.

A Shire who was orphaned at four weeks old when his dam was fed by walkers has survived and thrived thanks to being bottle-fed up to 33 pints of milk a day. John and Georgie Robinson’s Boris was ...

Shire horses served Britain in its time of greatest need, hauling supplies to the frontline line during the First World War, and powering agriculture before rampant mechanisation put paid to ...

Staff at a country house and rare breed farm said they “haven’t stopped smiling” since the recent birth of their first Shire foal. The colt was born at 4.42am on 5 May at Sledmere House in ...

Lottie, the resident shire horse at Graves Park, gave birth to a healthy filly foal on Easter Sunday after a 350-day-long pregnancy. A spokesperson for the farm said: “Lottie and her foal are ...