The discovery of a bronze age granite cist, or grave, in 2011 in a peat bog on White Horse Hill revealed the first organic remains found on the moor and a hoard of about 150 beads.

BBC: 'Amazing' treasures revealed in Dartmoor bronze age cist

Interestingly, Koppel was directed to a white paper with data on horse abandonment by John Holland, president of the Equine Welfare Alliance, presumably to round out the WSJ piece that would appear later that week.

FORBES: WSJ Serves Up Tainted Journalism On Horse Slaughter Plate

Grandiose visions of Carl Icahn, Mark Cuban and Donald Trump riding in on a white horse and saving the franchise should end as quickly as they begin.

FORBES: Money Wasn't the Only Thing that Madoff Stole from Fred Wilpon

On 25 July 1909, the Frenchman took his monoplane to a field in Calais with the help of a white horse which towed it along.

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