Horse Poor

Caballo de pobre, pobre caballo”–Poor man’s horse, poor horse, is the Mexican, saying. It is true a poor man’s horse might not get much to eat, but the horse earns what he gets or the poor man would not keep him. On the other hand, a man can own thousands of dollars in horseflesh and hundreds of thousands in horsepower and still be afoot. Among horsemen this is sometimes known as being “horse poor.”