Todd Fritz

And I got an article that says it's unlikely.

Do horses even know they're in a race, let alone have a desire to win it?

Do they understand what it means when their nose is the first one to pass the post?

Well, no, I don't think they would know that.

Based on decades of experience and everything we know about horse racing and horse behavior, its most plausible answer is no.

That they don't know exactly what they're doing.

Man, I don't know.

All I know is Affirmed and Alidar had an unbelievable rivalry in the Triple Crown.

And it felt like they were competing against each other, and they knew it.

Yes, Dylan?

I can tell you one horse who did not know he was racing, and that's Patch.

Patch had one eye.

Patch the one-eyed horse.

Yes.

Yeah, and Pauly can make the one-eyed joke.

You can't.

Yeah.

Pauly's got one good eye.

Horses have no concept of being in a race where the goal of their galloping is to get to a certain location on the track before any of the other horses.

I would think that they would understand that.