(June 7, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(June 7, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'm sure the humans get rich off of this. Not so sure what the horse gets out of it.
Aside from being treated like royalty for the rest of his life and mating with every thoroughbred filly in sight, there's always the possibility that he is intelligent enough an animal to understand at some level, and take pleasure in, the competition itself.
It's a horse.