Re: (549 Views)
Posted by:
miff (IP Logged)
Date: November 15, 2004 06:50PM
Jimbo(knowingly or not) hit close to a good point. The fact of the matter is that horses today have superior nutrition as well as lasix, blue boots, jugs, nebulizers etc (drugs aside)Many of these "today" items "help" a horse but were not available 20-40 years ago.
If you have been close to the game for the last 20-40 years, it is impossible to conclude that the so called faster horses of today could even compete on par with the truly great/fast horses of years past Like Secretariat or Dr.Fager to name a couple.
Go the Hall Of Fame archives and give an unbiased common sense look at the replays of SEC or FAGER and then see if you think that Mineshaft or GZ would even be competitive, with their big minus TG figs, against them. I saw them all and I wish I could bet on the "slower" horses of yesterday, all things being equal.
Horses may be getting faster TG FIGS today but no way are they faster, IMO.
miff