"Faster than they used to be" (937 Views)
Posted by:
jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: November 15, 2004 01:18PM
I give up on the ROTW thread.
Finley's article on the DRF quotes Jerry and a few others regarding the debate as to whether horses are faster than they used to be. Jerry taking the side that they are much faster.
I hear Jerry's point and don't have the information or inclincation to agree or disagree.
But, if Jerry is right about the track cushion, why is the Superintendent at Churchill saying that the assertion about the track surface is not true, that it hasn't changed in the 20 years since he has been there.
It would seem to me that he has no ulterior motive to lie (at least none that I can think of).
I kind of find the third person's opinion that sprints are getting faster but routes are not, to be interesting. Sounded a bit stupid at first thought, but you keep hearing from breeders and breeding experts that the current breed of horses in the US are much more speed oriented and very little stamina and durability is in the breed.
Probably not valid to make this comparison. But I for one, find it much easier to believe that Barry Bonds is a superior home run hitter to Hank Aaron, than to believe that Smarty Jones is faster than Secretariat was.