Cool, I wasn't sure, but it's not surprising.
There are also many more people and people can afford more.

SpaceHodler

We don't maintain horses when we can have cars, unless it's for the therapeutic / pet / cuteness factor.

Funnily enough, there are more horses today than there ever were when they had more economic utility: 

ideasfromtheedge

Sat stacks to live long?

> We don't maintain horses when we can have cars, unless it's for the therapeutic / pet / cuteness factor.

Funnily enough, there are more horses today than there ever were when they had more economic utility: https://stacker.news/items/886108/r/k00b?commentId=886119