To: Nitro
I think I read somewhere that Secretariat had an unusually large lung capacity for a horse. This is akin to Lance Amstrong's physiology.
2 posted on
05/05/2003 4:11:40 PM PDT by
randita
To: randita
It's not so much athletics, discipline, honor, or anything else--it's just freakish biology.
3 posted on
05/05/2003 4:12:40 PM PDT by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: randita
You read the right somewhere...
but it was his heart, it was 2 and a half times bigger than any others!
5 posted on
05/05/2003 4:16:05 PM PDT by
Nitro
To: randita
You had the right idea, the 2 and 1/2 heart could charge the blood through the lungs to be re-oxinanated and thereby power the muscles that ran away with our hearts.
28 posted on
05/05/2003 4:44:22 PM PDT by
Nitro
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