There's trouble in Farmington City, Utah, as you can clearly tell by this headline on the website of local NBC affiliate KSL-TV: "Horse herpes outbreak forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies."

After ditching his jockey, jump-racing horse Banna Strand proved to be a little too good at leaping over tall barriers when he leaped over an 8-foot fence and landed in a crowd of spectators at the Warrnambool May Racing Carnival in Victoria, Australia.

Meet Midnight. Born missing part of one of his hind legs and neglected by his owners, Midnight was transferred to Ranch Hand Rescue where he was given love, care, and eventually, a prosthetic leg. The results are truly amazing.

Inter-species love is always an amazing sight, so ease in to your day by watching a foal and kitty play and cuddle with each other.

The Post has a must-read EXCLUSIVE in today's paper: NYPD horses are shitting all over the Lower East Side and residents are angry! And the cops won't even clean the shit up, because they say it's "biodegradable." A reporter watched the horses take shits:

High speed car chases are nothing new, but police chasing horse drawn wagons filled with people? Now that's a sight to behold.

Stop whatever you are doing and watch this adorable video of animals being nice to each other. Cat owners take note, this is what you do the next time your kitty throws a tantrum.

Sometimes when you have an itch you'd do anything to scratch it, the same holds true with horses.

They must be the best of friends! Otherwise, this cat just learned an important lesson about the horse's personal space.

The new white meat: horses.

The Soup looked at Oprah's week of television appearances—including a wacky conversation with the paparazzi that Inside Edition caught on tape and crying over Gayle King—and also applauded the Kennedy Center for deciding to honor "the little people."

Stop the presses—Andy Rooney's finally found something that he doesn't hate! During yesterday's 60 Minutes, Rooney revealed that he'd recently seen Secretariat. Further, Rooney enjoyed the film (though not as much as seeing the horse in person).

A recent New Jersey horse race included competitors named Lady Mutada, Little Miss Macho, My Wife Knows Everything, and My Wife Doesn't Know. With that in mind, it's obvious that the announcer's commentary made for hilariously inadvertent comedy. Video inside.

Horse therapy! Lettuce addicts! Healthy men! Bodega diets! Church workouts! Nursery cake! Food mockery! It's your Monday Fitness Watch, where we watch fitness—while snacking voraciously!

Einstein was born April 22nd and weighs six pounds (less than a dachshund puppy!) Try not to squee loudly at your desk, but understand that you will fail.

Because he doesn't have enough to worry about right now what with the massive budget deficit in Albany and the prospect that thousands of state employees may be soon laid off, David Paterson is taking up a new cause: horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park:

No matter how lonely it gets, kids, please remember: jumping or horsecock: never the answer.

I, for one, welcome our new equine overlords with welcoming arms. And maybe a sign. "Welcome Horse Overlords," it will say. And maybe they will spare me from a life of painful and neverending hard labor.

Who will stand up for the rights of the brave NYC taxi driver who kicked two gay men out of his cab, for gay-hugging? Andrea Peyser will stand up for him. Enough of this gay PC crapola.