Gender Equality: It's most evident on the race track with the fillies competing with the colts on equal footing and what's more, very often beating them! Lessons human beings could well pick up provided the men can be given a crash course on `life after bruised egos'.

Impeccable Pedigree: They say you cannot choose your parents but if you are a horse, you will never regret this inability since this decision is taken for you by real experts in the field of pedigree. The ancestry is traced back to at least five generations ensuring that unlike the hero of most Hindi movies the khandaan or the lack of it is never an issue for debate.

Hollywood Highs: Talking of movies, getting a break in tinsel town is becomes a caketrot if you are a horse. Check out International Velvet, Black Beauty, Ben-Hur... it's horses all the way who overshadow the so-called real stars.
Shoe Shine: While people may just boast of succeeding in making other lesser beings kiss their shoes, horses get to achieve this without even trying. Not only are their shoes (that too the discarded ones) coveted and preserved, but many even mounted and displayed. Now how many of you would do this to your old shoe?