Greyhounds

[Sarah Ralston <ralston@AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU>]

> Really? Could have fooled me by the way you were stating things here.
> "Greyhound" to me is the epitomy of the "lean, mean, racing machine"
> with lots of muscle but very little body fat or gut fill, 
> which is what I understood you to be promoting.
> Glad I was wrong.
> Sarah
>  >>
>
>Again, you confuse body fat and hay belly with lean muscle mass. My trainers 
>go to the track and their buddies call their horses "fat"--even while they 
>lose race after race to them. The horses are not fat--that is useful muscle, 
>carfully laid on over months of hard exercise combined with a 
>carbohydrate-based ration. These "fat" horses probably carry less adipose 
>tissue on them then their buddies' horses.
>
>ti
>
Ain't confused-what you described above is exactly what I described-Lots of
muscle
but very little body fat. Have you seen the buttocks on racing greyhounds??
But again, this is definitely ideal for "sprinters" but for 100 miles
they need a bit more fat as a rule.
Sarah