Speed

If a person only knows the name of one racehorse, it’s likely Secretariat. He is the Elvis Presley, Michael Jordon, or Muhammad Ali, of horse racing. But what made him so famous? Was Secretariat the fastest horse ever? Secretariat set speed records at multiple distances and on different racing surfaces. But the Guinness World Record …

Have you noticed that certain jockeys ride an unusually high number of winners? Does the rider make the horse run faster? Or do the more successful jockeys ride, the better horses? I did some research to find the answer. Jockeys can and do make racehorses run faster. The unique movement of a rider on a …