Portal:Horses/Did you know/16

• ... that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch?
• ...that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
• ... that racehorse Clyde Van Dusen, winner of the 1929 Kentucky Derby, was named after his trainer?
• ... that Lookingglass, Oregon, became nationally famous in the 1970s when a parking meter for horses was installed in front of the general store?