Ok, so I've searched the boards for a while and have been unable to come up with an answer to a question: What is the over all purpose of horses and ponies having the endurance feat?
Granted, the feat gives a bonus to saves against nonleathal damage from forced marches. However, under PRD Additional Rules it states:
Mounted Movement: A mount bearing a rider can move at a hustle. The damage it takes when doing so, however, is lethal damage, not nonlethal damage. The creature can also be ridden in a forced march, but its Constitution checks automatically fail, and the damage it takes is lethal damage. Mounts also become fatigued when they take any damage from hustling or forced marches.
Emphasis mine.
So, not only does the Feat not deal with Lethal Damage from a forced march, but the feat is also is bypassed by this specific rule by having the saves it WOULD get a bonus on auto-failing.
Any thoughts?
Well... From what you pointed out I see the one thing the feat ceases to do, but it still does everything else it lists, which is like seven things.