On Saturday, Mage overcame 15-1 odds to win the Kentucky Derby. When he finished, his jockey, Javier Castellano, called him “a little horse with a big heart.”
He is a little horse, but small horses have been big winners. Think Seabiscuit.
Big horses tend to have more staying power though, especially in longer races, and two of the biggest horses to dominate racing were Man O’War and Secretariat. And this video asks: in a head-to-head, who would win?
It’s a great time waster of a question. Man O’War was probably bigger and apparently had a significantly longer stride.