Re: Energy used in a 50 by LW vs HW by your formula

["Joe Long" <jlong@mti.net>]

On Fri, 06 Mar 1998 21:49:45 -0600 (CST), "Jerry Fruth"
<hikryrdg@evansville.net> wrote:

>Joe, Regarding the Heavweeights.  Why try to spread the B.C. award around. 
>Or who says it should be made more fair.  Equal and fair has nothing to do
>with whats going on with the horse.  Remember the B.C. award goes to the
>HORSE not the rider.  With that in mind no one will ever be able to tell me
>on convince me that a flyweight  on its mount came close to doing what the
>horse of a heavyweight had to do.  Flyweights just don't get it.  Until you
>ride as a heavyweight, compete, train and try to keep your pal sound over
>the long haul, well in my opinion you just can't understand why we are so
>proud of our horses.  And I might add, bummed out over the 1/2 point rule. 
>Power to the Heavyweights......Jerry Fruth

Well, I believe we should make all of our awards as fair as we reasonable can.
Which does not mean to "spread them around" -- if that was the goal we'd just
draw the winner out of a hat at each ride.  What the statistics show is that the
ratio of weight to time is appropriate.  If it were not, either the horses
ridden by light riders or those ridden by heavy riders would be winning BC
disproportionately to the numbers of those riders.

But perennially some light riders think the heavyweights have an advantage for
BC, and some heavy riders think the lightweights have the advantage.  Which
itself suggests that the system is working pretty well.

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