Re: Yikes! (536 Views)
Posted by:
gowand (IP Logged)
Date: August 10, 2005 07:10PM
Cigar and Holy Bull are now 10+ years in the past. I do think horses are running faster now and attribute much of this on the highest levels to modern science both legal and illegal. Use of performance enhancing drugs (many undetectable) has exploded in the last decade. Harmon killebrew hit 30+ HR ten times in his career. Rafael Palmeiro did the same. Obviously drugs are not the only advantage thta modern day athletes(human and equine) have but it certainly plays a role beyond what anyone wants to admit. JB offers a number of rational reasons why horses are getting faster. I think there are many other reasons which occur "outside the numbers."
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