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Posted By: E, Daniel

With respect David, I grew up around horses a little myself and my wife jumped them for a long long time. Her best friend looks after many of the horses of the rich and famous, so I've had a little exposure.....

Horses love to run. Absolutely.
Horses don't race eachother. Ever.
In the same way that they love to breathe, eat, and socialize, yes they love to run.
But it's not racing, it's never racing, and just because a few from selected bloodlines get to live a peculiarly specific lifestyle that is rewarded with better treatment when they do better, doesn't mean it comes naturally to them or they would choose it over regular horse life. Mabybe in a Harem or Herd you'll see some leadership by a Stallion or Mare when it's time to take flight, but they're not 'racing' eachother. They're all just acting as a herd and attempting to move away from a percieved threat, after all the last one out the back is usually the first one eaten in nature!
But racing is just a weirdness we thrust upon them, where we rigidly control their every experience so as to mold them pavlov-like to perform as we're asking.

I'm telling you, the further back you stand and look at it all - the weirder and more grotesque it seems.