Fellow TBA-er Valerie dug up a very interesting study of mixed gender racing in dogs and horses.

Favorite line from the study… in refuting the correlation between human athletes vs. equine and/or canine athletes:

This analysis is strictly speculative, yet it is clear that humans have selectively bred both racehorses and Greyhounds for speed in both genders for several hundred years, whereas humans do not select their own mates based solely on running ability.

I guess it’s time for me to adjust my mate selection criteria!

She also includes a random sample of Australian racing, which is very mixed gender. Well done!