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> Thanks for the ideas some wrote in, always good to review the accomplishments of some of the great horses. Kim I can't agree more, there are no kudos for riders who are carefully peaking and racing year after year. It's very hard to do, much harder than just going to finish year after year. At least that is my experience.  Also, just because those winning horses fall off the charts don't assume they went lame. In our ten years of
> training and selling endurance horses guess which ones always sold first?  And yet about 90 percent of them went to people who never raced them again, just trail rode them. They were basically retired at their peak. Yet what a good life they have! So no regrets here.   NOW, a major bone to pick. Truman
> I think it was you that said: "I think it would have been very difficult for even Rio to have met the challenge facing one race wonders - that could blast one 100 in 7 hours and never be heard from again - time after time."
> Now since you made the statement I'm putting the burden of proof on you. How about looking up some of the Arab's horses and actually seeing how many have been running sound for race
> after race? We need to QUIT assuming that horses can't perform at that level and keep on going. It's simply not true. 
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We will never know because Rio was competing world championships in a 
different  "era" than we are in today. Today horses in several countries 
are trained for one big race and they are considered to have a 
successful career if they win that one race.

At the WEC level the game has changed and the ride times have gone down 
about 30% since Rio won one as a result.

Could Babe Ruth produced the same home run pace today in the era of 
night baseball (when Ruth was playing the games were played in daylight 
which is much better for the batter) and in the era of the five day 
rotation and relief specialist. Not many people think so. The name of 
the game has changed.

Could have Rio won three WEC's - and could have Cash won two WEC's in 
the latest version of the WEC we have today?

Pick all  the bones you want - the question is still open

Truman

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