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Plus, a DH rig has suspension, which allows you to squat into a corner and much larger tyres that give more grip (at least off road) meaning the ability to take corners safely at higher speeds and disc brakes that mean you can brake harder and later and the fact the your center of gravity is a lot lower.
As for my previous analogy, I was kind of close, but not quite there - if you think of the rear wheels as a pivot point, then the further away the front wheels are, the further the distance they have to travel to complete a turn, just as the longer a circles radius is the longer its circumference, so I guess that a shorter wheel base would indeed mean quicker handling as the front wheel has to travel a shorter distance to have the desired effect... I think that makes sense?