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** RJ goes the whole nine yards to avert this one. The characters are very careful with their horses, making sure that they're properly fed, watered, and shod, and not overworked. In several cases, characters reference "foolish stories" where heroes gallop horses nonstop for extended periods which, as the characters note, should have killed or lamed them.
*** And then in book 6, or maybe 8, when the Saldaeans bring 250,000 cavalry across the Carallain Grass. That's just a subset of the "make up fancy troop numbers" Jordan engages in increasingly as the series goes on.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** Averted in ''[[Discworld]]'': ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', which makes the point that, for most people, owning a horse is more trouble than it's worth. Death's horse, Binky, is often mentioned eating or grazing, Death is seen visiting a blacksmith to re-shoe his horses' hooves—indeedhooves — indeed, one discarded horseshoe is plot-relevant—andrelevant — and ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'' shows the job of cleaning the stables.
** [[Hellish Horse]]s can be troublesome too. Death previously tried out the idea of riding a skeletal or flaming horse after seeing some appealing-looking woodcuts, but one fell apart and the other kept setting the stables on fire.
** Also averted in ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]''. Moist offends the stable keeper by implying he rents "feagued up old screws", and instead is given Boris, a psychopathic animal who would be a fine racing stalionstallion if he weren't so violent. He's impossible to steer, impossible to stop, and leaves Moist with a severe case of saddle sore. He also eventually gets tired and stops of his own accord because he wants a drink.
* [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Horse And His Boy]]'' averts this trope, with the eponymous horse actually being rather high-maintenance for a war stallion. It's [[lampshade]]d in the desert crossing, when the horse explains that "galloping for a night and a day" is only possible in stories and that they must limit themselves to trots and walks. This was a jab at Lewis' friend [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] and his nigh-immortal superhorse.
** This is further inverted the next day when [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] points out that the horse would have been capable of a good deal more hard riding if he had a pitiless spur-wearing rider. Having been enslaved so long he lost the ability to push himself and in fact the physically weaker horse then pushes the pace.
* Averted throughout [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]''. In the Tarma and Kethry stories, Tarma's devotion to her horses is a major character element; likewise Kerowyn in ''By The Sword''. In the stories concerning the Heralds, the fact that most of a horse's limitations do not apply to Companions is very important.
** And even averted for the Companions themselves, since later books reveal that their inhuman (in-horsy?) stamina is a result of drawing on magic power and burning it. When in areas that are lacking in magic leylines, their stamina and speed is reduced to that of any common horse.
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=== Live -Action TV ===
* Obliquely averted on ''[[Highlander the Series]]'', when Duncan alludes to what happened when two opposing cavalry forces—one riding stallions, the other riding mares—approached one another on the field of battle. The horses' behavior was not specified, but presumably wasn't anything a bicycle would do.
** Note that for once, the writers did ''not'' opt to include an historical flashback...
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=== Film - Live Action ===
* In ''[[Top Secret]]'', bicycles whinny and gallop like horses.
 
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=== Live -Action TV ===
* [[Lampshade]]d in an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' where Romana's first encounter with a horse leaves her wondering where the ignition is. She gets on, it gallops off at full tilt, and the Doctor berates her for it later.
 
 
=== Other ===▼
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329142246/http://www.elfwood.com/u/andersson2/image/55a755b1-23da-11e4-9fb0-6fd3a883da45/the-night-mare Another theory], by Fredrik K.T. Andersson, on what happens to the riders who don't let their horses to rest. It's a nightmare, of course.▼
 
 
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=== Web Original ===
* ''[[Cracked.com|Cracked]]'' Photoplasty advertises a [[Warp Whistle|whistle]] to summon one in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005152300/http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#5 Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games].
 
 
▲=== Other Media ===
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329142246/http://www.elfwood.com/u/andersson2/image/55a755b1-23da-11e4-9fb0-6fd3a883da45/the-night-mare Another theory], by Fredrik K.T. Andersson, on what happens to the riders who don't let their horses to rest. It's a nightmare, of course.
 
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