What exactly does it mean when a horse is "spent"?

Black Beauty was my favorite book. Second to last paragraph always made me tear up, "I have now lived in this happy place a whole year." *le sigh* So bitter sweet.

Anyways, at the end of the race Ginger had "broken her wind" and she was basically ruined. Her breathing during heavy exercise would never be sufficient or regulated like it should be by her own lungs. I do not know if this problem is treatable with modern meds. I don't know too much about Broken Wind, but I know it's similar to asthma.

Being "spent" means tired out with nothing left to give. Even race horses have something left to give after a race so to "spend" a horse isn't right. Even long distance competitiors like Endurance have to abide by strick standards making sure their horses heart rates are below a certain level even after a long ride.

Horses are amazingly strong, however they're amazingly fragile animals.

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When the horse is over used and it doesn't want to give it's spirit or heart into the activity it used to like, THEN it's spent.

I feel so sorry for horses like that, it's not their fault they became like that. Humans made them so.

Also if they are injured, tired, and getting slightly older it sometimes is called spent.

When a horse is spent, it means the horse is as useful as a pair of sunglasses on a bloke with only one ear.

Hope this helps!

when there sooo tired they are spent

mentaly they refuse to work. or phystically thy have been worked to hard for to long.

i think it's when they are worn down and weakened