‘El caballo ciego’, una narración de perfección asombrosa, JM Guelbenzu, El País 23.07.2022: https://elpais.com/babelia/2022-07-23/el-caballo-ciego-una-narracion-de-perfecci...

This is the story of a rich, spoiled, teenage girl who has a rich mother, and a drunken "useless" father who makes rash purchases when he's drinking.
It's the summer, when young Nancy has come home from boarding school when she finds a beautiful"Hunter" gelded horse in the stables that her father had bought without checking the pedigree. As she's walking with him one day, he suddenly goes blind. She's determined to train him to run and jump like a sighted horse, but her mother is dead set on "putting him down."

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" 'Ah, don't make fun of him!' she said in sudden pain. 'Everyone ridiculing him and jeering at him as if he were the stable freak simply because he isn't to sire or foal or isn't a colt, or isn't to train, or hasn't a single action he's expected to perform! Simply to look the fool and hack around, but I didn't think you'd feel that about him --' "
Clearly the author's allusion to the father, as well, as he hasn't any of his own money, and does absolutely nothing to "earn his keep" in the family's horse-breeding business. ( )