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weight

Marinera@aol.com
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:44:01 -0400 (EDT)

If you cloned a 950 pound horse, trained the two of them identically, put a
140 pound rider on one and a 220 pound rider on the other and sent them down
the Tevis Cup trail, which one would get to Auburn first? If you think you
had a sure thing in the lightweight, you are wrong. The ride for which we
have the longest set of statistics would tell you that Nick Mansfield, Pat
Fitzgerald, Ed Johnson (twice), Bud Dardi (twice) Sam Arnold, Boyd Zontelli
(twice, two different horses) and Chris Knoch (twice) all put more than 200
pounds on their steeds and managed to beat the lightweights. Yes, weight is
a factor, but so are a dozen other things, the most important of which is
rider savvy. These riders proved that the weight handicap can be overcome by
working on strong points in other areas.

Julie Suhr

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