Originally Posted by lyledriver
Ridelugs,
I'll take a stab at answering your question (even though you didn't ask nicely)..
Axles break more often on older freewheel hubs, where the drive side bearings are further from the dropout than the non drive side. It just so happens that these hubs are usually in horizontal dropout frames.
blah blah that if those same axles were placed in a vertical drop out, thier failure rate would drop exponentially.