I appreciate you a lot, frank! Can you give me a list of your favorite horses, both from movies/shows and from real life?
From real life, my favorite horse of all time is probably Echo who I heard about back in 2015, and then mentioned in passing in this post about Bayes' Theorem on SSC. I linked to the article on Facebook and my mother then started sending me all sorts of articles about Echo and I loved reading them because they made me smile, which is the core of the question: "if you're sad, you can always find happiness in horses."
Sadly, Echo did not live very long (I think he was 26 or something?), but he had one final, very moving, happy chapter as a therapeutic riding horse.
He's in this video, too, doing something that made him happy in the last weeks of his life, which involved holding a trampoline in his mouth. The researcher is then talking about how "we don't want to harm any of the horses in this study, and Echo is no different from a patient with a broken leg or a depression that we are trying to help" -- which makes me really happy and is a very good reason to use horses to get at a phenomenon that would otherwise be hard to study.
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Other horses I like:
1. The appaloosa from The Black Stallion (1979).
2. My Little Pony.
3. The horses from War Horse
4. The "Hooves of Fire" parody band, from The Simpsons episode Bart's Chocolate Homer. Listen at your own peril.
5. Pegasus, from Yes.
6. Pegasus (various), from Game of Thrones.
7. And finally, The Pregnant Horse
