Sturgeon are larger, up to 1000 pounds. Check it out.

No, seriously, it's a chocolate eclair in my pocket.

#2--Gets to eat, gets load lightened. No other horse has both advantages.

As a former Special Ops, I can tell you that once public opinion is against you, the occupied country's citizens want you OUT, a civil war has broken out, and your country's leadership hasn't the brains to give you the tools you've needed since day one--you have already lost.