The ninth-annual Connecticut Ride for the Cure, a horseback riding fundraiser for breast cancer research, is Sunday at Tyrone Farm in Pomfret.  

A Philadelphia jury has awarded $2.36 million to a boy kicked in the face by a horse at a program famous for involving inner-city youths in horseback riding and polo matches. Plaintiff Pharaoh Williams and Williams’ mother, Callie Williams, of North Philadelphia, sued Work To Ride Inc. — a nonprofit created in 1994 to provide urban youths with activities centered around horses — for the broken …

All trails in the Nine Mile County Forest Recreation Area will close Oct. 15 to all mountain biking and horseback riding.