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[RC] Percentage Body Weight - k s swigart

David LeBlanc said:


Maybe we could get Mike Maul or Truman to
do a quick and dirty 'study' and look at incidence
of lameness pull by distance and weight division
for a year or two - let's see what a big data set
has to say with lots of different rides factored in.


The AERC's data set contains no information with respect to the weight
of horses being ridden.  Consequently, if lameness is a function of
total weight carried (horse + rider weight), then there is no way to
glean this information from the AERC's data set.  Nor can it determine
if percentage of the horse's body weight carried has any effect on
lameness pulls (or any other outcome).

The AERC's data set actually contains very little information with
respect to rider weight either.  The weight division information is both
self-declared (so consequently of dubious accuracy) and even if declared
accurately only tells you of three minimums of rider weight (the
featherweight division has no minimum and none of the weight divisions
has a maximum).

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)



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