NEW KENT — Colonial Downs kicked off its summer racing season on Friday by racing zebras, ostriches and camels in between regular horse races. In between the nine thoroughbred races, groups of zebras, ...

People tend to do a little something extra for that special anniversary. Organizers of the 10th annual Fremont Bull Riding Classic aren't any different. But this special event won't be of the bovine ...

You may have cheered for brave little guys and girls mutton-busting at the rodeo, or watched dog racing at Mile High Greyhound Park, but chances are pretty good that you’re never seen ostriches ...

PLYMOUTH - Sheboygan County Fair has always been a mecca for entertainment. Today's fair has multiple forms of entertainment that include tractor pulls, demolition derbies, jumping dock dogs, and pig ...

The thought of spending a weekend at an exclusive ostrich farm was intriguing. Just thinking of birds as strong as mammals and taller than an average human being raised my curiosity. We arrived at the ...

Ostriches raced through a North Carolina town 88 years ago — with people riding them, historians said. During the “unusual” race on July 6, 1935, one of the flightless birds “got off track” and ...

Jockeys riding ostriches during a race on an Ostrich farm in Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape area of South Africa. Shutterstock In every corner of the Earth, sports make up part of the vital lifeblood ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Clambering onto an ostrich for a ride used to be popular among tourists in a South African town known as the "ostrich capital of the world." Not so much anymore. Two major ostrich ...