Bostonherald - Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino – seeking to downplay the disbanding of the nation’s oldest police mounted unit this month – squashed the last ride the elite squad planned to take aboard their horses on their city beats yesterday and ordered them to stay in the stable, the officers say. The 10 cops, who had T-shirts made up that read “Last Ride 6/17/09: The Tradition Ends” and featured the year 1870 when the BPD Mounted Unit was formed, were ordered not to make the planned patrol from the Jamaica Plain barn at Allandale Farm to Jamaica Pond; the Fenway area and down Boylston Street to downtown Boston. The 150-year-old unit, which patrols the Boston Public Gardens and other highly visible spots, has fallen to the budget ax. The 11 horses are due to be shipped to New York City for use by the NYPD mounted division. Menino’s spokeswoman Dot Joyce said that she was not aware that a final ride had been planned by the BPD unit, and when asked about the order not to leave Allandale Farm, she said: “I don’t know anything about that.”

NYPOST - First it was Babe Ruth. Now Mr. Ed. Boston’s taking a beating once again at the hands of the Big Apple, which is set to trot off with the cream of the beleaguered city’s recently disbanded police horse unit. “Boston’s loss is New York’s gain,” gloated one NYPD source.Sources said the NYPD will be getting the five best out of the 12 steed pack that remains from the country’s oldest mounted units, established in 1873. “These horses are already trained and street-ready,” said the NYPD source.

Shit Menino. It’s one thing to cancel the Mounted Unit’s last ride, but now NY is rubbing our fucking faces in the fact they’re getting our best fucking horses! Totally unacceptable! I mean this almost erases the fact we’ve beaten them 8 straight times. Seriously stop acting like this is still the 1990′s when New York dominated our asses and we threw parades for guys who won championships in other cities. Times change.  You’re the Mayor of Titletown USA now. Start acting like it. So I don’t care what you have to do, but we’re not getting rid of our Mounted Unit. Raise taxes. Stop eating so many donuts. Whatever. And not only that, but I want New York to send us their best stallions just to show them we mean business. Fuck them. Nobody takes our best horses and gets away with it. Not on my watch! And if you can’t do it then I’ll run for Mayor and do it myself.