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COROLLA, N.C. — Come summer, the beaches of this barrier island will be choked with cars and sunbathers, but in the off-season the land is left to wild horses. Smallish, tending toward chestnut and black, they wander past deserted vacation rentals in harems of five or six.

Thousands of them once roamed the length of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the likely descendants from mounts that belonged to Spanish explorers five centuries ago. Now their numbers have dwindled to a few hundred, the best known living on federal parkland at Shackleford Banks. Read Full Story

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Animal suffers nasty cut, motorist taken to the hospital.

A riderless horse darted into traffic and collided with car on Linden Blvd. in Queens during Monday morning's rush hour, witnesses said.

The motorist, a woman driving a black Honda sedan, was taken to Franklin General Hospital for treatment, officials said. The driver's side window was smashed by the impact.

The horse, named Blackjack, and car collided on busy Linden Blvd. near S. Conduit Ave. about 8:25 a.m., right in front of the horse's home at Cedar Lane Stables, headquarters of the Federation of Black Cowboys. Read Full Story

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Horses were domesticated 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, a genetic study shows.

Domestic horses then spread across Europe and Asia, breeding with wild mares along the way, research published in the journal PNAS suggests.

The work, by a Cambridge University team, brings together two competing theories on horse domestication. Read Full Story

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I'll Have Another didn't seem to have the goods to win the Kentucky Derby.

Sold as a yearling for a paltry $11,000, ridden by a rookie jockey hardly anyone knew and stuck in an outside post no horse had ever won from — not exactly a blueprint for success at Churchill Downs.

But with the finish line in sight, the chestnut colt overtook highly regarded Bodemeister in the final furlong Saturday to make a name for himself and rider Mario Gutierrez.

I'll Have Another stormed out of post No. 19 — the first winner from there in 138 runnings of the Derby — and bided his time back in mid-pack while Bodemeister set a blistering pace on a hot, muggy afternoon. Read Full Story

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