There are more horses today than ever... Oxen got the short end of the deal - almost nobody uses oxen even though historically they were the backbone labor of the farm, while the horse was for the right.

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handedness an hour ago | parent [-]

> There are more horses today than ever...

The global horse population peaked in the 1910s.

	▲	bluGill 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The only data I can find ignores the majority of horses today - recreational riders. If you can find a better citation I'd stand corrected, but everything I can find counts race horses and horses used for farming.