If a horse is completely healthy yes, it might live to be 40 years old, but that is a stretch. Biological factors, riding accidents, illnesses/diseases, etc. make it very hard for a horse to live for that many years. The average lifespan is 20-30 years old, depending as you said on the horse's health.
Not surprisingly, Mandarin Chinese is the most useful language for business after English, spoken by 845 million people in the worldâs second-largest economy, China. French (no. 2) and Arabic (no. 3) follow, with Spanish ranking fourth. Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Italian, Korean, and Turkish followed.
Bonjour: French will be spoken as a first language by eight per cent of the world's population by 2050, compared to three per cent now. While the top languages in the world today are Mandarin, English, Spanish, and Arabic, Natixis has produced figures that show French will be number one in 35 years time.