(June 7, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Sure. I throw a tennis ball and he gets it and runs off with it. Dumbass doesn't understand the game at all.
I think you are anthropomorphizing the horse.
It's possible. I'm merely suggesting that there might be more to it, from the animal's point of view, than some mindless mechanical response. I'm not an animal behaviorist and can't speak on the subject with any authority. In any case, I don't have much personally hanging in the balance of the argument other than to repeat that the lot of a Triple Crown champion is probably enviable as horses go.
