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Challenging old
tale about colts
being tougher,
faster than fillies
A new scientific study challenges the long-held notion that male Thoroughbreds are faster than female Thoroughbreds.
When Northern Arizona University scientist Dr. Pauline Entin compared timed clockedby-race winners over a threemonth period last year, she found that the speed differential between genders was negligible — males were just 1 percent faster than females.
This is in marked contrast to human sports, in which male athletes are an average of 10 percent faster than female athletes competing at the same distances.
For her study, Entin collected 330 winning times from flat races in New York, California and Kentucky. The distance of each race was divided by the finish time to determine the winner’s average velocity.
Analysis of the data sug
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