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Actually, it was speed. Suicidal fractions at Del Mar in the Pacific
Classic chasing Siphon. Cigar is great enough have something left down
the home stretch, but not enough to hold off Dare and Go... a horse
Trevor Denman appropriately called "...a classy horse on his day, and
this is his day!"... a horse that ran his one best race that day.
A few fractions of a second slower at the 1/2 and 3/4 and maybe
Cigar holds off Dare and Go down the stretch...
Anyways, Jerry Bailey took Cigar too fast that day and got beat.
Endurance? Weight has everything to do with the amount of work a horse
does. If it didn't, handicappers wouldn't care who was 1 pound over
or 2 pounds over in what race. Speed vs distance is the key. A race
horse runs 1 mile at 38+ mph and 1 pound makes roughly 1 length
difference... that's around 11 feet. They travel at about 5 lengths
per second.
1 pound isn't going to make a bean of difference to an endurance horse
going 1 mile at "endurance race speed" ... or what? around 10 or 12 mph?
But, over 50 miles 1 pound *is* going to make a difference.
Hey, AERC reps... here's a good question for you:
How much distance does 1 pound make in a 50 mile race?
;-) - kat
in No. Cal. with Magnum the TB ex-racer
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