Yes Coops that is a facetious but clever and effective way of putting it, well done. The gallops industry is largely for people who have plenty of money to spend, this is obvious when a gallops trainer charges $500 or so a week to train a horse. I don't know why you asked the question in the first place, you clearly have an excellent knowledge of the facts about keeping a horse as compared to a dog. As one of the "poor people" I will stick with the dogs but a factor such as, but not only, a high level of personal involvement is also very important to me. I could get up every morning and walk a dog but I don't think I would be riding much trackwork down our suburban street. And by the way, you are doing very well in keeping your dog training costs to $20. If I had a dog at home it would cost me $20 a week in petrol without even going to the races. Add to this the obvious costs of food and additives, veterinary, depreciation on Untrasonic, walking machine and hydrobath, other transport costs, etc etc etc and $50 is arrived at and passed very quickly.