And it was done without bouncy shoes
And it was done without bouncy shoes
What?
rojo wrote:
What?
The 10 furlong Kentucky Derby course record set in 1973
Secretariats 1973 Kentucky Derby record. Then set the records at the Preakness and the Belmont also.
Just to be pedantic, 1:59 2/5. Somehow, horse breeders ceased to get faster horses, or maybe they don't train them right. Maybe they should take a page out of 800m or miler training.
Secretariat's 31 length victory in the Belmont Stakes is the greatest athletic achievement of all time.
how does a horses training compare to a humans for races like this?
The way thoroughbreds are trained and raced has always seemed nuts to me. Their races generally take between one and two minutes to complete--roughly like humans running the 800. Somehow the horses are so fragile that asking them to run such races two weeks apart is considered very difficult, and good horses rarely race more than a dozen times per year at best. I assume the issue is injury risk and not the actual exertion of the race?
Injury risk is very high because they are putting an enormous force down on a very, very thin area.
This post was very well done.
brilliant wrote:
This post was very well done.
My pea brain still doesnt get it. Is this in reference to some Kentucky derby record but made it seem like he was referring to that event where some guy ran under 2hrs in a non legit way?
Did combine to awful “sporting” event. Animal/ horse torture and the greatest mockery of a marathon of all time
xczvzxcv wrote:
Just to be pedantic, 1:59 2/5. Somehow, horse breeders ceased to get faster horses, or maybe they don't train them right. Maybe they should take a page out of 800m or miler training.
Back in the 70s, you could train your horses much more harshly, and doping was basically uncontrolled.
A lot like the Cold War doping in athletics actually, with some of those records also still standing. Funny that mention the 800 m...
casual obsever wrote:
xczvzxcv wrote:
Just to be pedantic, 1:59 2/5. Somehow, horse breeders ceased to get faster horses, or maybe they don't train them right. Maybe they should take a page out of 800m or miler training.
Back in the 70s, you could train your horses much more harshly, and doping was basically uncontrolled.
A lot like the Cold War doping in athletics actually, with some of those records also still standing. Funny that mention the 800 m...
^this. More rampant doping.
Trainer Baffert has had horses fail drug tests. Enforcement is a joke.
Female coach having affair with male runner. Should I report it?
Post about women banditing Brooklyn half marathon going viral on X
If Daniel's and Pfitz are outdated..then where do I look for modern training plans?
Colin Sahlman runs 1:45 and Nico Young runs 1:47 in the 800m tonight at the Desert Heat Classic