Big Apple Scores Another "Ruthian" Coup Over Boston; NYPD To Pick Up Five Of Beantown's Finest From Recently Disbanded Horse Unit

In New York City, the New York Post reports:

• First, it was Babe Ruth. Now, it's Mr. Ed. Boston's taking a beating again at the hands of the Big Apple, which is set to trot off with the cream of beleaguered Beantown's recently disbanded police-horse unit, cops said [last week]. "Boston's loss is New York's gain," said one NYPD source.

• The NYPD is one of a handful of departments around the country that was under consideration as new home for the recently unemployed equines, according to published reports. "These horses are already trained and street-ready," said the New York police source.

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• Boston officials said nay to the division last month to save about $600,000 a year. [...] In 2004, the NYPD took on a handful of horses from Philadelphia after that city shuttered its mounted unit.

For the story, see 'STIRRUP' THE RIVALRY (HOME-RUN TROT: Some of the horses from Boston's scrapped mounted-police division will join the NYPD -- and could work Yankee games).