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Originally Posted by Cardus
The same phenomenon has occured with Ragozin Sheets as well. If you look at the Ragozin home page and click on "Past Derby Winners," you'll see a similar trend.
The horses are running faster, they need more time between races... and so on.
For instance, the notion that Ghostzapper was faster than Secretariat is on the surface laughable.
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Not that I am needed to defend TG (or am in any way qualified), but the way I rationalize these seemingly laughable comparisons, is if you put Secretariat in the same conditions 20 years later (track speed, "training techniques", etc..) that Ghostzapper ran with, he would be running much faster numbers than he did in the 70's. I would only compare horses from different eras to their competition at the time. This is simply my opinion, I could be wrong.