At the Uzhitz stables, there's been a bit of a mishap. Apparently, the stablehand, Vashek, was out exercising Pie, the stable's prize stallion, when he fell, hitting his head. Pie was so frightened that he bolted, and now no one can find him. Chivers, C. J. (December 26, 2005). "A Sure Thing for Kazakhs: Horses Will Provide". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 18, 2020 . Retrieved September 18, 2020. Broncho Billy Anderson, the very first cowboy actor, employed this method. He didn't know anything about horses. You know, he didn't have any sentimental feelings towards them. He just wanted to get his movies made. Another way of tripping horses was to dig holes in the ground, and they would just gallop into the holes. And the most egregious and famous example of that is in "Charge Of The Light Brigade," Cecil B. DeMille's film. HCM City People's Committee". www.eng.hochiminhcity.gov.vn. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012.

The original thematic form is also disputed. According to Kloekhorst (2008), the original derivation was a u-stem, to which Anatolian reflexes point particularly, which presume a Proto-Anatolian u-stem *h₁éḱu-, as opposed to the thematic (o-stem) derivation in all the other PIE branches. There is no known phonological development through which PIE *h₁eḱwo- could yield PAnat. *h₁eḱu-, and in view of the productivity of the o-stem inflection in Anatolian it is unlikely that PIE *h₁eḱwo- would have yielded PAnat. *h₁éḱu- through secondary developments. We therefore must conclude that the Proto-Anatolian u-stem *h₁éḱu- reflects the original state of affairs and that the thematicization as visible in the non-Anatolian IE languages (which would be a trivial development) must be regarded as a common innovation of them. In other words, this is a piece of evidence supportive of the Indo-Hittite hypothesis. In that case, the original paradigm would have been *h₁éḱ-u-s, *h₁éḱ-u-m, *h₁ḱ-u-és, from the stem *h₁eḱ-u- ( “ swift ” ). MITCHUM: One of the most surprising things for me to learn was that stunt horses really love doing their work. You know, you would think it would be hard on them and that they might sort of sour after time. But the really good ones apparently really loved to do it. Whether it was falling or jumping through candy glass or doing some other outrageous behavior, they really seemed to take pride in their work and loved their work and that they lived really long times despite the fact that what they were doing was dangerous and difficult. Horse meat is widely available and consumed in Switzerland, where no taboo exists regarding it. The laws on foodstuffs of animal origin in Switzerland explicitly list equines as an animal type allowed for the production of food. In 732 AD, Pope Gregory III began a concerted effort to stop the ritual consumption of horse meat in pagan practice. In some countries, the effects of this prohibition by the Catholic Church have lingered, and horse meat prejudices have progressed from taboos to avoidance to abhorrence. [43] In a study conducted by Fred Simoons, the avoidance of horse meat in American culture is less likely due to lingering feelings from Gregory's prohibition, but instead due to an unfamiliarity with the meat compared to more mainstream offerings. [46] In other parts of the world, horse meat has the stigma of being something poor people eat and is seen as a cheap substitute for other meats, such as pork and beef. - In any case, Pope Gregory's law is no longer in force, so there is no prohibition now for Catholics to eat horse meat (other than on abstinence days).a b "Butcher gives horse meat a run". Au.news.yahoo.com. July 1, 2010. Archived from the original on December 10, 2011 . Retrieved February 15, 2013. Horse Leberkäse is available in special horse butcheries and occasionally at various stands, sold in a bread roll. Dumplings can also be prepared with horse meat, spinach, or Tyrolean Graukäse (a sour milk cheese). Such dumplings are occasionally eaten on their own, in a soup, or as a side dish. Kulanda 2008 argues that the PIE word is borrowed from North Caucasian; compare Kabardian шы ( šə ), Abkhaz аҽы ( aĉə ), Avar чу ( ču ), Karata ичва ( ičʷa, “ mare ” ), Lezgi шив ( šiv, “ horse ” ) etc. (NCED 520). This etymology has been criticized by Matasović 2012:291 who argues that the direction of borrowing is probably from PIE into North Caucasian: steppe horses were probably traded for Mesopotamian imports on the North Caucasus in the Eneolithic period. The fact that we find fricatives and affricates in the Caucasian reflexes of this word indicates that the source could have been an IE dialect of the satem type.

Criminal Law. Prohibition on Slaughter of Horses and Sale of Horsemeat for Human Consumption. Initiative Statute". California Secretary of State. 1998. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012 . Retrieved September 12, 2012.Ursula Gabathuler; Samira Zingaro (February 22, 2013). "Quälerei auf Pferdefarmen"[Cruelty on horse farms] (in German). Zurich, Switzerland: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Archived from the original on February 27, 2015 . Retrieved January 14, 2015. Mondo Retail – Retail & Catering – Mondo Butchers". Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Inside France's Fading Love Affair with Horse Meat". Vice. March 12, 2017. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020 . Retrieved August 30, 2023. Vegetarian actress Brigitte Bardot started an animal rights campaign featuring not only the first televised animal slaughter but also a video of a "crying" horse that turned people off of horse meat, seemingly for good.