Re: "Faster than they used to be" (640 Views)
Posted by:
jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: November 16, 2004 12:14PM
CtC and Twoshoes,
Speed is bred to speed far more today. Yes.
Horses are more fragile today. Yes.
Drugs can impact performance. Yes.
Conclusion - Jerry is probably right and horses are much faster today. No way to get here from the first three points. Especially not at 10 marks.
Horses are bred with more sprint pedigree influences and many precocious pedigrees as well, with all the money to be made in 2 year old races. But to assume that building more speed into the breed and less stamina, would result in horses running 10 marks at speed figures representing 10 lengths faster than the last generation, is not a conclusion that I can draw. And I don't see how you can draw it.
I don't know why you don't see how critical it is that the Superintendent at Churchill Downs saying the track is the same or FASTER now than it was 20 years ago, is a HUGE problem for Jerry's thesis.