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    Southern NJ
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    Do you think horses actually know that they have won the race when they win?

    Boggling my mind at the moment....

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    yes

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    No way. They are animals nothing more nothing less. Run the ******* race end of story. Business as usual.

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    Absolutely .

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    yes

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    of course

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    yes they do because you can tell how they act after they win

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    yes i do

    yes

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    Steaks aren't that smart. No.

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    lol I love when people say that certain horses have a certain type of personality and horses know when they win a race...... are you people for ******* real?

    THEY'RE ANIMALS!

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    yes i think they do

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    yes, I think they do. We have an poster who also trained horses in this thread. He thinks so as well.

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    Yep, most losing horses go on suicide watch following race.

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    yea, they get treated better when they win and they know they went real fast.. So you can see they trot and get cocky. So they know they did good. For them is please or not please. They think, I pleased or they think, I bad. I not please. Bad me.
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    Nah............they just know a bell rings, the gate flies open, and the ass whipping commences and somewhere over the next 2 minutes the ass whipping ceases.
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    the best ones do

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    how can some of you deny animals of having intelligence? that's mind-boggling...

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    ask your dog..
    U are an idiot for asking this question.

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    yes almost all do. 100% fact. and again like robmpink said, just ask poster 'str', guy knows his shit

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    I think every animal that is trained to do something knows when he did it right because he gets the reward. Horses are trained to win so my guess is that they know 99% when this happens. Beside the rewards, I also believe that trained animals sense when you are mad at them, pleased or extatic...

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    when the jockey stop beating them .

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    Well Zenyatta appeared to know where the wire was.

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    Yes, when that horse got passed right before the finish line I could hear him yell FUCKKKKKKK!!!!

    Perhaps that was the jockey I cant be certain

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    To those who say no because horses are animals, they forget that humans are animals too.
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    Watch the replays of the Affirmed/Alydar battles and see if they look like they understood the outcome.

    When Secretariat died, his heart was found to be 4 times the size of a normal horse's heart. He got it.

    As mentioned earlier, the great ones do.

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    Of course they do. Horses are very sensitive. I would say more so than those human beings that are themselves so dulled that they can't imagine horses to be sensitive. In all of Nature, the greatest degree of insensitivity is undoubtedly found among the human race. But also the greatest degree of sensitivity. Not one other species may be as divided along those lines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JerseyLove View Post
    No way. They are animals nothing more nothing less. Run the ******* race end of story. Business as usual.
    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
    Steaks aren't that smart. No.
    Animals have the intuition/instinct to stay away from smoke because they feel it is not good for them to inhale. Humans on the other hand even pay money to inhale smoke. Never underestimate animals.

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    They know if they trip they're gettin their brains blown out so the smart ones run slow

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    In a rooster fight the chickens know how to use the blades on their claws. They also know who won and who lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bettilimbroke999 View Post
    They know if they trip they're gettin their brains blown out so the smart ones run slow
    But the ones that win get to fck hot bitches.

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    No...............

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    Quote Originally Posted by opie1988 View Post
    Watch the replays of the Affirmed/Alydar battles and see if they look like they understood the outcome.

    When Secretariat died, his heart was found to be 4 times the size of a normal horse's heart. He got it.

    As mentioned earlier, the great ones do.
    The Affirmed/Alydar battles during the Triple Crown run are probably the best examples. There were a couple times Alydar came zooming up, looking like he would pass Affirmed, but Affirmed would catch that glimpse in the peripheral vision and push a little harder and did that each time Alydar tried to make a move. There was no way Affirmed was gonna let him get that nose ahead of his. It sure looked like he knew he was in a race and wanted to win, but I guess it could also have been something more primal, about being the Alpha of the group. Affirmed always wanted to be the Alpha of every group and exerted his dominance to show it.

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    I think they know when they win.

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    It's been proven they know. There was a 60's documentary called Mr. Ed. Check it out.

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