I spoke with someone about the Triple Crown and the Preakness race yesterday, and we got in an interesting discussion. He seems to think that the reason we haven't seen a Triple Crown in so long is because most of the race horses today are bread to be "sprinters", their furthest distance they can go being the Kentucky Derby and that's it. Because of that, the "sprinters" as he calls them don't have the endurance to make the Belmont distance of 1 1/2 miles. I hate to say this but part of me agrees with him a bit. Also, and I do pray I'm wrong in this, but it seems to me a lot of the horses don't seem to have the "heart" to want to win races like they use to have back in the 70's and even before that. It seems (at least to me) that the horses today tend to not fight as much and tend to give up too easily. That's not to say I'm going to stop watching the race, it's just I find myself wondering that we need to get the breeders to get off their tail and start breeding distance horses again like Man o' War and Secretariat use to be.
And to the regulars on this board, yes I mentioned Secretariat in this post. He may not be my favorite, but compared to the horses we've seen in the 90's and today, even he was really good.
