ANNA, Ill. -- It's not the Winnemucca Futurity in Nebraska or the Red Bluff Roundup in Red Bluff, Calif., but the mules will be off-and-running here next week. Mule racing provides thrills and ...

Starlight Racing partnered on a $600,000 Army Mule colt during Day 5 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, joined by Harrell Ventures and co-breeder St. Elias Stables. The colt was consigned as ...

WINNEMUCCA (AP) – Nature triumphed over nurture as two cloned mule brothers came up short in a professional race against naturally bred runners. Idaho Gem, the world’s first equine clone, finished ...

Don't say that Orland resident Becky Reimers is stubborn as a mule - she just knows quite a bit about them. Reimers is a co-owner of Bar JF Red TIcket - a five-year-old mule - and boards the animal in ...

WINNEMUCCA, Nev. – Two qualifying heats, two wire-to-wire victories, two nearly identical times. It was almost like the same mule won twice.Idaho Gem, the world’s first equine clone, and his brother, ...

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — In a low-stakes mule race in a remote corner of the West, nature versus nurture will be put to the test as two of the horse family's earliest clones challenge naturally bred ...

Paul Elias, my favorite AP reporter, has written a story about two clones mules that will race normal ones in Nevada. In a low-stakes mule race in a remote corner of the West, nature versus nurture ...

Scientists in Idaho have produced the world's first cloned mule. So far, the mule, born May 4, is the only member of the horse family to be successfully cloned. The project took almost five years and ...

Jerry Jackson, a Thoroughbred trainer for 39 years who instead found his greatest success as the conditioner of the world's most famous racing mule, Black Ruby, died Aug. 5 from kidney failure.

A healthy and energetic mule named Idaho Gem is the first member of the horse family to be cloned, joining the barnyard of cloned animals that now includes sheep, cows, pigs, cats and rodents.

BLAME THE BOSS, OK? One of my editors, Nick Rousso, thought I'd be the perfect person to cover this story. Which could be a compliment or could mean that Rousso thinks I'm a horse's bleep, too, and ...