<< Don't fool yourself Jordan has tremendious physical talent, but it is his
work ethic that is truly incrediable. Magic Johnson, no slouch on the
B-ball court himself, said about Jordan that even more impressive than his
basketball skills was his desire to be the best.
In horses we probably would call this "heart".
Truman >>
Dead on. Edwin Moses. Roger Bannister. Carl Lewis. Wilma Rudolf. Mark Spitz.
name all the Olympic runners and swimmers: the common denominator: 4-8 hours
of well-designed hard work every day. The days of the aristocratic "natural"
human athlete were over in the '40s. The fact that they still exist in
horseracing is more a matter of ignorance than anything else.
To be sure, you can't expect a horse with 93% FT and FTH cells to do well in
an endurance sport--but muscle biopsies and post-ex. blood analyses are the
norm in human athletics--why not equine athletics?
In horseracing, we have virtually no applied exercise science at work at the
track--it's a shame.
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