Tokino Mino— *amnesia'd*

Thing is, with continual improvements in training and veterinary understanding you'd think that barring prodigies newer horses would have better peak performance than old legends, only missing out on legend status because the whole field improves with them so they don't stand out as much.

RNGCombo said:

Thing is, with continual improvements in training and veterinary understanding you'd think that barring prodigies newer horses would have better peak performance than old legends, only missing out on legend status because the whole field improves with them so they don't stand out as much.

Well, there's also the change in culture and norms which would've led to Tokino Minoru being scratched the moment someone noticed the horse's leg(s) weren't all right, had the horse been a modern horse.

Case in point, this year's derby winner most likely would've had his leg FUBAR'd had he not been scratched from the prior race at the last moment.

Jnglmpera said:

Well, there's also the change in culture and norms which would've led to Tokino Minoru being scratched the moment someone noticed the horse's leg(s) weren't all right, had the horse been a modern horse.

Case in point, this year's derby winner most likely would've had his leg FUBAR'd had he not been scratched from the prior race at the last moment.

which reminds me of Skilfing again... that was really sudden and shocking to see happen after the race