Re: Newbie query: why required weight?

["Jerry Fruth" <hikryrdg@evansville.net>]

For the light and flyweights, Please bring me the deed to your ranch on the
day yiou want to race.  We will of course strap 100 added pounds on your
horse to get your weight up there with the big dogs.  Then we will ahve at
it.   Any takers?  I think that about covers it.  Jerry


On Thu, 03 Sep 1998, Susan Evans Garlinghouse wrote...
>> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Teddy Lancaster wrote:
>> 
>> > I must vehemently disagree with you. Weight carried by a horse,
>> > especially over long distances has been proven over and over again to be
>> > a MAJOR decided factor in the outcome of ANY race.
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>K S Swigart wrote:
>> > 
>> Show me the statitics.  The only studies I have ever seen where anybody
>> actually tried to figure out what the effect of weight carried had on
>> outcome of an endurance competition came to the statistical conclusion
>> that weight of the rider (and all its tack) is "insignificant."
>
>
>Teddy, I have to agree with Kathy---it has NOT been shown in any
>research project that weight makes a difference, especially over a long
>distance.  There's only been ONE empirical research study that ever
>looked at weight-carrying ability in endurance horses and that was
>mine.  I've looked at over 600 endurance horses now and the statistics
>are crystal-clear that weight makes NO difference to completion rate,
>finishing time, or in pulled horses, how far they went before they were
>pulled.  If the study weren't published, it would still be just my
>opinion---but it's been dragged over the coals by a whole lot of
>extremely nit-picking researchers that dearly love to find mistakes and
>they all agreed with the conclusions.  WEIGHT IS NOT A FACTOR AT
>SUB-ANAEROBIC SPEEDS.
>
>Susan G
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