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[RC] re:HW/BC - Klc5355
In a message dated 7/2/02 12:48:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kathy.mayeda@xxxxxxx writes:
Well Kathy, as a heavyweight rider I have never found my weight to have been an actual factor in winning BC, nor has getting off and running. Us HW's that get off and run usually do it on the downhills to save the horses legs, and the distances never amount to very many miles. Only one HW has one BC at our local rides and he was just 13 min behind the winner and I doubt he had much time to get off and run. And one middle wgt has won BC. And just out of curiosity, how many "miles" did you see these people run? Did you even see them on the trail? I have never won BC on a ride where I have gotten off and ran, and have never won due to wgt. I have never even found it to be a factor. Running down a few hills in no way makes up for carring our weight up the hills. And I have shown for BC enough times that if it made a difference I would have won BC many more times. I have even had high vet score on many rides, but not good enough to make up for the time points. I will gladly give up that half a point per pound if the winners
will give up their points for time!! The BC form works very well and the best horse almost always wins. Regardless of what we sometimes think.
Ken Cook
West Region
Okay, Maryben, so the high vet scores win and the weight
scores don't have that much of an impact. But you know
the two local riders that won a couple of the BCs were
heavyweight and middleweight. They just got off the
horses and ran so that the horses could maintain their
condition! So the amount of actual "work" that the
horses were doing does not necessarily correlate with
the weight of the rider. I guess that's my main point
if I did have one.
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