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> What about the ultra-marathons held at Tevis and Vermont? Are the horses
> & runners anywhere near each other at the end of *really* long distance?
> I've seen video of a few of those races and lots of the runners would
> never get out of a vet check as "fit to continue".  Also, to *really*
> make if an equal comparison you'd also have to make the runner carry an
> equal percentage of his body weight that the horse is carrying.
I've already e-mailed Jim privately, but the thing that comes to mind to
me in most of these comparisons is that one is comparing a human at the
absolute pinnacle of capability to a horse that may be "pretty good" but
is not of comparative caliber in the equine world.

The horse population at large could out-do the human population at large
any day of the week, and I'd wager on the horse if one pitted the handful
of really top-notch horses against the handful of really top-notch humans.

This is already an apples-to-oranges comparison, but at least let's
compare apples and oranges that are both ripe enough to be worthwhile.

Heidi


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