A special episode of A Time for Horses, recorded live on the campus of Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 25, 2023, the 169th anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava.

At 37, Jesse McNeil - at times carpenter, commercial fisherman, dabbler in real estate - decided to buy an untrained horse, make himself into a horseman, and ride all the way across the United States, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.

News, of sorts.

“A horse, a horse! My Kingdom for a horse!” Having lost his mount, standing amid the chaos of war that August day in a Leicestershire field, Richard Plantagenet, third of that name to sit on the throne of England, knew the value of a horse in battle.

Across cultures and throughout time, tales and legends from around the world show us a clear set of universal character types, or archetypes. These characters are so universal that the psychologist Carl Jung developed his theory of personality around t...

We know that genetics is the science of heredity. It’s likely common knowledge that in the last half-century, human understanding of that science has exploded. Each year, the pool of knowledge grows, so that now, humans, working in a laboratory,

This is the story of how a decision was made, with all the best intentions and for all the right reasons, to withdraw the prescription drug pergolide mesylate from the market in 2007. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the announ...

This concludes our two-part story about the man who changed the way we see horses, which began in Episode 5.

This is the first part of a story that combines art, technology, industry, science, and horses.

We conclude our story of Reckless, a native Korean mare who became a United States Marine.

We continue the story of Reckless, a native Korean mare who became a United States Marine.

This episode explores the bond between humans and horses through an unusual story from the middle of the twentieth century.