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Asha_Brea t1_j2g5oae wrote

Humans that have throroughbread horses celebrate their horses birthday on January 1st.

I would be pretty surprised if horses understood the concept of time to celebrate birthdays, and even then, have a calendar that matchs the ones human use.

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zirfeld t1_j2hd2jd wrote

"So Secretariat, shall we meet again on January 7th?"

"I don't know, what's a January?"

"Let's just say a week from now."

"Cool. What's a week?"

"It's when the sun goes down and comes up again 7 times."

"Got it. I can only count to three though."

"I'll just swing by when I feel like it."

"Sounds good."

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Binky-Answer896 t1_j2ij5hk wrote

Secretariat was a March 30 foal. Still considered an auspicious date for foaling.

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zirfeld t1_j2iwj57 wrote

It's not the real Secretariat. The horse parents just named their boy after a hero of their childhood, just as humans do.

And neither hat any idea of calenders. They noted down the birthday as "the day that started with rain and then it cleared up and became quite warm and then the nice lady with carrots came along".

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ChangeSalty2225 t1_j2j8lkb wrote

It’s for race conditions. There are races confined to specific ages of horse.

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