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The eating of certain animals while being abhorred by the prospect of eating others is the result of social/cultural conditioning. As you rightly suggest the dreaded Belgians have no qualms about tucking in to a nice Azertyuiop steak while snakes, dogs, crocodiles, snails, frogs, etc, etc, are all considered delicacies. Why, we have, as a species, been known to have been partial to the odd slice of human flesh.
So, I guess it’s not an ‘instinctive’ revulsion but a learned, conditioned one.
<br>I certainly believe horses understand the concept of revenge. I backed Rooster Booster seven times and he lost all seven, then I gave up and he immediately started the winning run that culminated in the Champion Hurdle, when I actually laid him!
Much the same with Sergeant Cecil, who attracted my support five times, placed every time, before I concluded he was too high in the handicap. We all know the rest ……..
Oh yes, horses definitely do revenge!
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Quote: from thedarkknight on 2:42 pm on Feb. 12, 2007[br]If horses are this intelligent and understand all about racing, victory, defeat, revenge and their standing in the pecking order, then are we patronising them by even suggesting that they need a jockey?
<br>Interesting, i expect we might get some truer run races ;)
Mind you the stewards inquiries would have to be televised. I expect a resounding "ney" to most questions.
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Zorro if only they could orrah eh !<br> and equus is a very strange species<br> check out the wimmin of Gulliver’s travels <br> and of more modern ilk<br> the old sprinter Perion who p**sed it<br> but only when it drizzled.
Of course at the paddock at Brighton<br> a horse need only crane its neck up<br> to see a boldly presented forecast of<br> the the starting price with numbers no names.<br> In view of the preceeding<br> might this not be considered just to<br> much information<br> for the thinking clippity clop !
<br> flatcapgamble…a horse never never uses the edit
(Edited by gamble at 7:18 am on Feb. 14, 2007)
Thankyou, Gamble. I regret that I have made it a point not to discuss matters of this sort with sheep.:)
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Ahhh the man from cardigan bay<br> will hide and deny three times his wool worn roots<br> while my roots dangle proudly<br> ten thousand woolmarks to a disbelieving world<br> and he looks forward<br> to a pipe, a harp, and everlasting life<br> and I just the grass<br> on the other side of the dyke :cool:
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Still pondering this in relation to scientifc mehtod and testing.<br> If horses were like humans then a race against<br> friends should produce more endeavour.<br> Therefore, basing the test on this premise,<br> one would have to test effort in a race<br> comparing races times with stable companions against unknown horses.<br> How to do this scientifically is the problem.<br> An inside straight track and brass monkeys for jockeys<br> for starters.
Fascinating and certainly worthy of some written thought
Wow Gamble. I understood that post. Except for the brass monkeys bit. Suppose you have to keep standards up.:biggrin:
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Zmask my dear heavily starred chumold<br> I suppose your relating standards<br> to clarity is understandable<br> given your weekly brief.
Your thoughts on standards <br> of tongue fighting<br> quite diverted<br> my mind to the strange and humble fish.<br> The creature we eat on a friday, <br> face up or face down<br> and usually poorly battered<br> with a yellow unsuiting coat.<br> A shy fishwife indeed with no curlers and no head scarf, just<br> glug, glug, protruding lips, a vacuous look,<br> but little substance emitting.<br> Possibly the fish through lack of street <br> intesifies the rest;<br> a ray of sun <br> the fingering coral<br> the beauty of a female egg<br> the deep<br> the dark<br> the empty<br> the flat ones on the bottom<br> that lift the sand<br> with disturbing motion.<br> Ah the simple anenome<br> Yes the fish knows pleasure :cool: <br> and so little ga ga.<br> Makes you wonder who<br> the real timelord is <br> and who may have usurped<br> the real kingdom from us<br> and who has inherited the earth.
A slurp of crone,<br> so unfishlike,<br> but a pleausure that matches<br> possibly those of the ‘erring.
oh as an aside,<br> The whirring brass monkey<br> is a small automatan<br> that shakes a horse<br> into a regular clippity clop.
A fine end I’d say<br> the fish<br> and the beauty<br> of his appreciation <br> of his deep silent world
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