• tetris11@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    edit-2
    5 hours ago

    There was this racehorse named Pot-8-Os who won over 25 races and went on to sire a horse empire of winners. His father was a legend himself named “Eclipse”

    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      4 hours ago

      Did you also know that one of the first motion pictures was shot to measure the gate of a race horse by Leland Stanford, who would go on to create Stanford University where the eugenics movement would get its legs and horse breeding theories of genetic prowess were applied to humans, and subsequently they would use the Stanford University as a test bed to breed umbermensch that would go on to inspire the Nazis? Yes this sounds insane but all of it is true. Also college football became a method to study human combat ability for the US military.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 hours ago
        • camera → racehorse → leland → stanford → eugenics → nazis: There’s a lot there
          • camera → (developed for) → racehorse → (by) → leland: this I follow
          • eugenics → (popular in european elites with racehorse breed overtones) → nazis : this I follow
          • leland → (founded) → stanford : this I follow
          • stanford → (created) → eugenics : this I tentatively follow, but missing the gap of an entire atlantic ocean
    • POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.comOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      5 hours ago

      Also an unbelievable fact, you responded to user Potoooooooo about Potoooooooo the horse.

      I really love this story about the horse.