A woman who placed a 10-cent bet at a Michigan horse track and won $21,584. The bet was made at Sports Creek Raceway in Swartz Creek, about 55 miles northwest of Detroit. The woman placed two 10-cent Superfecta bets on a race being simulcast from the Hollywood Park track in Inglewood, California. The Superfecta requires gamblers to pick the four top-finishing horses in correct order. "One of them won," said Sports Creek general manager Chris Locking, reported The Detroit News. She returned to the track to collect her winnings.

Police are smearing 30 bottles of sunscreen per day on an albino horse to help it get through a heatwave in the United Kingdom. The Humerside Police force say they nicknamed the horse "Sunny. "

Two cloned mules finished third and seventh in 20th annual Winnemucca Mule Races, Show and Draft Horse Challenge on Sunday. The equines won their respective elimination heat on Saturday.

After a two-week intensive search by the FBI there is still no sign of union boss, Jimmy Hoffa's body. Based on a tip, agents destroyed a Michigan horse farm and barn, then dug up several sites on Hidden Dreams Farm 32km (20 miles) from the restaurant where he was last seen in 1975 reports the BBC.