Come on now, stop and think:

Do you think a movie company would actually allow a movie to be made where animals are put in danger where they can get really hurt and die!? Um...yeah...if they want lawsuits up the wazoo. Common sense.

(It's just like the stupid Quizno's commerical with the FAKE dead bird- obviously they wouldn't use a real dead bird because they would be slaughtered with lawsuits.)

Have you ever watched Black Beauty!? Did you see the part when Black Beauty is starved and rail thin!? Do you really think the movie company starved the horse to play that part!? Also, the part when the carrige hitch breaks and Black Beauty gets cut really bad, do you think the actual horse got cut? When Black Beauty fell and skinned his knees, do you really think that the horse skinned its knees!?

Personally, I don't have a problem with the movie- it's a movie- it's fake and none of that stuff really happened.....