Horse Power

[Goran]

Before cars the most prized personal transport posession was a race horse. So it got me wondering, how fast does a race horse accelerate?
Apparently, quite fast.
According to this video,
41.5mph in 3.2s
It would embarrass a lot of cars on this forum, and other sports cars besides.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKqh2OdhTLE
(skip to 3:45 to avoid the boring stuff)

Here is a quick excel chart of the above horse and my S8 0-60 time.
Its simplified as linear acceleration, although in real life it is non-linear.
To 40mph that horse accelerates as fast as a D2 S8