Re: LEFT BANK / JERRY BROWN (875 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: August 05, 2002 08:45PM
"Today's horses are better athletes" is a shortened form of a longer statement I originally made where I also mentioned selective breeding, nutrition, advances in shoeing, and "sports medicine". We may not be producing better NATURAL athletes in any sport, but the net result is bigger, stronger, faster--and in the limited context of measuring performance, that's all that matters. I offer no opinion of how fast Secretariat would run if trained by Cole Norman.
But I have to say, I recently saw a clip of Mantle's 500th, and was struck by how skinny he looked. This guy hit the facade of the roof, and no-one has done it since.
TGJB