No worries of an unfair advantage; nope, no worries … except for the horse! Chariot races are speed and endurance events and if that poor muscle-bound horse tries to run more than a quarter mile he’ll collapse. Now, if it were a pulling contest, he’d be a sure win.
With that physique, I don’t know that the horse is really suited for long distance races. Sprints, maybe. Or he could just intimidate the other horses into slowing down.
This strip is actually very topical. Yesterday the Kentucky Derby announced a ban on Lasix™, a drug that reduces pulmonary bleeding and causes temporary weight loss in horses, thus increasing their running speed.
jagedlo over 3 years ago
Looks like a urine sample is in order…
Digital Frog over 3 years ago
They’d need performance drugs to hang onto those reins with no traces to hitch the horse to the chariot
SamuelMeasa over 3 years ago
No, I have never feed my horse any thing from that crazy mage tower.
juncarlo over 3 years ago
And the horse is surely a percheron horse.
LeslieBark over 3 years ago
No worries of an unfair advantage; nope, no worries … except for the horse! Chariot races are speed and endurance events and if that poor muscle-bound horse tries to run more than a quarter mile he’ll collapse. Now, if it were a pulling contest, he’d be a sure win.
dcdete. over 3 years ago
No, he has just got more horse power under the hood than the other cars (carts). Well, to be more accurate, more horsepower at the front of the reins.
Goat from PBS over 3 years ago
He’s not wrong.
geese28 over 3 years ago
Super Throrough Bred!!!
Jeffin Premium Member over 3 years ago
Could you speak up. You sound a little horse.
Zebrastripes over 3 years ago
#45’s chariot is bulging….oooops! Busted!
Arav727 over 3 years ago
horse is in a costume
Ichabod Ferguson over 3 years ago
Medieval chariot race? Must be the lost Roman legion.
Kaputnik over 3 years ago
With that physique, I don’t know that the horse is really suited for long distance races. Sprints, maybe. Or he could just intimidate the other horses into slowing down.
DavidPlatt over 3 years ago
“I always wear gloves.”
walstib Premium Member over 3 years ago
That horse is beefed up.
blakerl over 3 years ago
Shall I bet on Win, Place or Show?
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
East Germans raised horses?
Shonkin over 3 years ago
This strip is actually very topical. Yesterday the Kentucky Derby announced a ban on Lasix™, a drug that reduces pulmonary bleeding and causes temporary weight loss in horses, thus increasing their running speed.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 3 years ago
Must be the stable hand that is feeding that horse some pretty GMO grass.
paranormal over 3 years ago
No, but your horse has gulped them down!!!
pcmcdonald over 3 years ago
My name is Honest Dale and this is my horse Clyde.
PoodleGroomer over 3 years ago
He doesn’t take EP drugs; He donates.
stamps over 3 years ago
Chariot racing 101 – attach the horse to the chariot, not the jockey.
anomalous4 over 3 years ago
Nice trick with the numbers, Parker. 8-)
Walter Parmantie Premium Member over 3 years ago
BlueKnight1966 over 3 years ago
That’s just a gelding that now identifies as a mare.
T577 Brown Bunny/Vegetable Patch 62 over 3 years ago
Bob Sled might be behind Bob O’Gross key noted numbers at I-43.
Why does 45 always remind me of the infamous Russian pizza salesman, Vyacheslav Koslov?
felipenollaFFA over 3 years ago
Your attention Please, the Russian Horse chariot number 45 has been disqualified, I repeat….
WentBrown over 3 years ago
His horse has.
Woody157 over 3 years ago
The driver speaks like the “Real 45“
JamesSchulte over 3 years ago
that is a strong horse