Horse abuse

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not saddened by the neglect or abuse of any living creatures, which is why we find the Man v Horse Marathon disturbing. Not only do they pit human athletes in top shape against horses who have not had time to train, but they then make them run a course designed to exhaust them more than it exhausts their human counterparts. What's worse, they then hold over the horses heads that they are not so fast as they thought they were because in this rigged race they can't always beat all of the human entrants. Don't get us wrong, we thing it would be great for humans to be included in horse races and horses to be included in foot races, but we think that this so-called Marathon has perhaps gone too far.