History Main / SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying

** It's a joke about the german phrase: "Ich hab' auch schon Pferde kotzen gesehen." ("I've seen also horses puking.") meaning: "[[SarcasmMode Very likely.]]" or "I have some doubts about the things you tell me, but I'm too polite to say you that so offendingly."

* ''DidYouHearAboutTheMorgans?'' features a scene in which Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker flee from a hitman on horseback. Here's the problem: they had no time to tack the horse up from when they spotted the hitman to when they had to make their escape. Which means the horse was standing in its stall with a saddle, breastplate, and bridle on.

* Averted and lampshaded in C. S. Lewis' ''[[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Horse and His Boy]]'', in which the talking horse himself insists that "galloping for a night and a day" is nonsense and they will have to alternately walk and trot.

* ''Did You Hear About the Morgans?'' features a scene in which Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker flee from a hitman on horseback. Here's the problem: they had no time to tack the horse up from when they spotted the hitman to when they had to make their escape. Which means the horse was standing in its stall with a saddle, breastplate, and bridle on.
* ''Something To Talk About'' co-starred Robert Duvall, who actually knew how to ride, and so insisted on doing his own stunts. The problem here lies with the end competition. Identified as a Grand Prix event, that means the fences he'd be jumping would be approximately 5' high. They actually look about that height when some of the stunt riders are jumping. But it takes considerable training and skill to jump one fence of that height, let alone 8 to 12 of them. So all the fences were obviously lowered to about 2'6" for Duvall's turn.

Let's try to keep the examples here to fictional ones. While there are definite cases of real life abuse and neglect due to their owners' ignorance, most of these tend to have consequences. In fictionland, however, the ill-treatment never produces bad results. Super trope of AutomatonHorses. See HorsingAround for when the horses ''do'' protest their treatment.

* In the Western "Rattler" by Barry Andrew Chambers his horse is generally treated like a dog that you put a saddle on. This initially looks like a simple case of [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Animals are Dogs]] but veers off into into potential animal abuse when the horse is fed CHOCOLATE. Chocolate is toxic to horses as well as dogs. He also feeds, or allows others to feed, his horse pancakes, a blueberry pie, and beef jerky at various points. No one finds anything wrong with this. Additionally, when offered the chance to stable his horse and have it properly groomed and fed, he declines and ties it up outside still saddled for at least a day, possibly longer.

* MountAndBlade gives you horses with infinite stamina and lets you control them perfectly in combat even if they're just 'average' horses and not highly trained warhorses.

* Averted and {{Lampshaded}} in ''SheWoreAYellowRibbon'', when Olivia Dandridge complains about having to walk instead of riding, saying she might as well be with the Infantry; Lt. Cohill tartly replies, "We soon would be, if we didn't ease these horses."

* Deliberately averted in ''{{The Horse and His Boy}}'', where Bree (a talking horse) makes it clear to Shasta that the "galloping all day and all night" thing ''does not happen''.

* Averted as much as possible in the ''{{Belgariad}}'' - at one point, after being forced to ride all night and through a freezing river, the horses ''collapse'' and must be rubbed down. They're far too fragile to ride for some time, slowing the group down considerably. There's also mention of one character having to ride several horses to death to stay in front of the heroes.

** RDR gives us the ur-example of AutomatonHorses.

* ''Have You Heard About the Morgans?'' features a scene in which Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker flee from a hitman on horseback. Here's the problem: they had no time to tack the horse up from when they spotted the hitman to when they had to make their escape. Which means the horse was standing in its stall with a saddle, breastplate, and bridle on.

* In ''DerSchuhDesManitu'', Winnetouch's horse Jacqueline has to vomit after walking too fast. This movie being a comedy, this may be deliberate PlayingWithTheTrope, though.