I stumbled across this You Tube video today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlsEtqMgOLI#

It is amazing what money can buy - this guy has an 800m (half mile) INDOOR training track! Wouldn't that be nice in Qld at the moment!!

And to put Dan Patch in perspective - Meadowskipper also went 1:55, but 60 years later!! He was well and truly a horse before his time