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My stallion is a retired Arab racer. He ran from 1986
to 1990. He won quite often and his best races were at
the mile. His times were about 1:54 in the mile. I do
believe current Tbs run the mile faster than that, but
I'm not sure how TBs who raced in the same decade as
Szybki stack up.

chris

--- RUNAWAYWOM@xxxxxxx wrote:
> another question.   anybody ever matched up a good
> racing arabian against a thoroughbred?  just to see?
>  i was curious. if so, what distance would be a good
> test, i mean a track race, not 50 or 100!  :-)
>
> Ed,
>   In Oleno, High Springs Florida, we used to have a
> Pony Express ride. You needed a team of 3 horses and
> riders to ride a 5 mile loop through the woods with
> the riders passing off the saddle bags(mail) to the
> next rider at the starting point. I did this race
> every year and won. The first year I used one Arab
> (G.F. Fazeer) and two other friends rode theirs. The
> next year I rode 2 of my Arabs with a friend riding
> her Arab as the second horse, we won. The third year
> I rode all 3 of my Arabs, jumping from horse to
> horse at the start(wasn't easy).
> My horse Spirit dumped me twice on the trail when he
> was spooked by some deer running by. I won, my
> overall time with all three horse was the fastest.
>      The fastest single time was run on a
> thoroughbred, luckily that team only had one fast
> horse. They don't have the Pony Express anymore
> because they were tired of me winning every year.
> But as my trainer said "you did your homework"
> Roxanne
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