Plenty on here won't agree

Desert Orchid

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BBC's Wild Arabia, on at the moment:

"The average speed of European racehorses hasn't changed in fifty years."
 
Better diet , training methods and modern medicine can only keep a horse healthy but not to run faster.
 
Absolutely fascinating program, wonder how long it will be before we see robots riding horses as they did the camels! Even had remote controlled whips attached operated by the trainers, Camel speed increased by 30%.
Incredulous place Dubai, its like the science fiction of the future but happening now.
 
Given the changes in breeding over the last 50 years, and the huge increase of lower-grade racing, comparing averages may not be the best way to measure it.
 
I think legitimate conditioning experts such as Henderson, Al Zarooni and Pipe have found ways to improve the speed of the modern horse.
 
I don't think they improve the speed of the animal. They just find ways of allowing it to maintain speed for longer.
 
I don't think they improve the speed of the animal. They just find ways of allowing it to maintain speed for longer.

"Maintaining speed for longer" is the same thing as going faster, since speed is directly related to position (i.e. its the change in position with respect to time). Now, if you're talking about absolute top speed at any particular momentary instance, then that's a different story, and not something that racehorse breeding and training has necessarily been trying to directly improve over the years.
 
All about motive really - having given all the best brains with the best labs in the world 50 years to make them run faster and failed and then Barney C. shows them it can be done in two provided the money is down.

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