Quality Road's (negative) 7.5 fastest Thorograph fig ever

[johnny pinwheel]

Originally Posted by tector

Are you always this uncomprehending or are you just especially retarded today?

what do you really think these horses are better today. they are bred for speed they lack endurance, stamina and durability. i saw your stupid pitcher comparison. yeah, they pitch less but they don't need to rest for weeks and months before playing. the careers are as long or longer. if i'm retarded you have your head in the sand. these horses are built to last for what, less than 20 races.....maybe?

[tector]

Originally Posted by johnny pinwheel

what do you really think these horses are better today. they are bred for speed they lack endurance, stamina and durability. i saw your stupid pitcher comparison. yeah, they pitch less but they don't need to rest for weeks and months before playing. the careers are as long or longer. if i'm retarded you have your head in the sand. these horses are built to last for what, less than 20 races.....maybe?

Nobody said "better"--you are debating voices in your head. "Better" is a concept than can include all kinds of things: speed, stamina, versatility, etc. To my mind, and apparently to what passes for yours, they are not demonstrably "better" today.

"Faster", however, means a single attribute, speed, which the sheets purport to measure. As I said in the other thread, I am an agnostic on the subject. But it certainly would not surprise me in the least to find horses generally faster now. It is an absolute certainty that the other frequently raced species, man, is faster now at all distances. Improved training, diet, drugs (legal and otherwise), medicine--it all plays into it. And those factors may work for thoroughbreds as well. Further, in the past 40 years or so t'breds have been explicitly bred for precocious speed. I can't really say we've done that for humans, although having athletes from Africa, etc. participating--which they didn't do in the distant past--may have much of the same effect.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by johnny pinwheel

what do you really think these horses are better today. they are bred for speed they lack endurance, stamina and durability. i saw your stupid pitcher comparison. yeah, they pitch less but they don't need to rest for weeks and months before playing. the careers are as long or longer. if i'm retarded you have your head in the sand. these horses are built to last for what, less than 20 races.....maybe?

they do rest a heck of a lot more than they used to. Now a days, pitching on 3 days rest is a major deal.

Honestly I think it has to do with how inbred the race horses are now. I swear some people breed two horses and keep their fingers crossed.. "either I'll get one with 5 legs and 2 heads or an extremely fast BC Sprint champion"