ATLANTA — Members of the Georgia Animal Rights and Protection non-profit are contacting city leaders to ask for a ban on recreational horse back riding in downtown Atlanta. The push for the ban comes ...

When the old farmer finally answered the back screendoor, he stood on the concrete stoop and waved toward his sprawling pasture as if it were a U-Pick-It pony pen. Except the man owned only one pony — ...

Heidi Falzon learned to ride horses when she was 4, and, she recalls, “It was the only thing I wanted to do.” By the time she was 7 or 8, she says of her time at boarding stables near South Bend, “I’d ...