How much does it cost to buy and take care of a horse? Estimates range from $5,000 for an average horse to over $100K for a fancy Rafalca horse, which makes it quite clear: one must be fairly well-off ...

My friend Chris suggests, "Clearly Rafalca is not the only Romney she rides." Can you top that, Slog? UPDATE: We may already have a winner: Apparently you can stick a round peg into a square hole.

Back in 2010, Mitt Romney deducted the cost of maintaining (feeding, brushing, training) his wife's show horse, Rafalca, as a business expense. A lot of people ridiculed the idea that Rafalca was a ...

Last week we learned a little about how Romney’s imaginative accountants managed to keep his tax rate above 13 percent — first they ignored nearly $250,000 in charitable deductions he could’ve claimed ...

LONDON – Riddle: When is a horse a goat? Answer: When it is Ann Romney‘s chestnut warmblood, and it costs the Americans all their medal hopes in an equestrian event. Hate to be a neigh-sayer about ...

On Tuesday, Ann Romney's dressage horse Rafalca failed to get anywhere close to Olympic gold. But the legacy of the horse — the Presidential candidate's wife's horse — lives on. On Tuesday, Ann Romney ...

Ann Romney’s mare Rafalca will not return to the states basking in Olympic glory. The 15-year-old horse, co-owned by Ann and her hubby, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, failed to make the cut ...

Rafalca is the name of Ann Romney’s show horse, which competed in Olympic dressage this week. Rafalca Derangement Syndrome is the name of a debilitating partisan disease that is raging among snotty ...

LONDON — Ann Romney said her horse Rafalca had another ‘‘fabulous’’ ride at the Olympic team equestrian dressage competition and that she’s thinking of breeding the German-born mare when she stops ...

LONDON — Rafalca, the horse co-owned by Mitt Romney’s wife, returned to the Olympic spotlight Tuesday for her second round of competition in equestrian team dressage — and a fresh round of attention ...

Rafalca, the dressage horse co-owned by Ann Romney, performed for the second time at the Olympics in London on Tuesday, but didn’t score high enough to continue to the individual dressage final. Ann ...