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raced in “heats.” The distance would be run several times, with the horses rested for 1530 minutes in between, depending on the length of the course.
Three or four heats per race was not unusual, meaning that the horses often raced up to 1015 miles at a time. The extraordinary endurance of those first generations of thoroughbreds traces directly to their Arabian breeding, for the Arabian was then, and remains, the endurance champion.
Over time, an emphasis on speed, rather than ability to run long distances, gradually
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