Horses are God’s mistake. We live in a world in which a beautiful, low-key terrifying creature must die simply because it breaks a limb and that is messed up, folks. Horses regrettably do not get to enjoy mercy because most of the time it would take large sums of money and a long, painful process to attempt to heal the broken limbs of an equine. They often break limbs because the amount of weight they carry on relatively thin legs with delicate tendons that work as elastic bands to power them only need a bad trip or fall to easily result in a leg injury.
If Secretariat had broken a leg then it would not have been a champion racehorse and there would not have been any cool movies made about it, it would have been put out of its misery and given no chance at overcoming the injury. He’s not a horse, but if Marty the Zebra in Madagascar broke a leg I bet he’d be doomed too. And what about that zebra in Racing Stripes? Where would we be if he broke his leg and ended his inspiring story before it began?
This is not meant to argue that people’s treatment of horses in this situation is wrong, simply that its necessitation is a design flaw and it is a shame it must occur in the first place. We on The Lamron e-board are (mostly) horse sympathizers, and we believe that since this majestic, divisive creature is forced to exist in our hellish reality it should have to tough it out when it breaks a leg like the rest of us do.