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If you lose a horse (or two) in a race and immediately race the same team missing horses, you get the horse(s) back at no cost. (No point paying for a replacement horse if the game gives it back to you automatically)

Note: There was no message saying some generous person from my faction provides a healthy full team. This message did appeared when I raced with injured horses though and thought that situation was normal. The automatically replacement of dead horses seemed to be a little generous

That is a bug yes. Teams should not be allowed to participate with less than four horses