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Did you also notice that there were no feather or heavyweights in the 
top ten of the NC 100? Maybe a rider needs to be a certain size to be 
tough enough to ride fast all day up until a point where their horse 
can't carry them fast. Maybe Mike or Truman can tell us what the 
statistically optimum weight for winning is. Or is that a politically 
incorrect question in a "to finish is to win" discussion? Libby

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Does it mean that when picking a jockey* to ride in the WEC you 
> > should try > to make sure that he/she hit as close to the minimum
> >     
> weight as 
>   
> > possible? Of > course, DUH!  But this is obvious anyway.
> >     
>
> Interesting note. The "jockey" that Val put on her 50 mile horse to do a
> 3:58 50 was a MW.
>
> On the Heavyweight stats.
> I found it interesting that in the 50, if I have my notes correct, 5 out
> of 14 heavyweight entries were pulled at the FIRST vet check. There were
> no more pulls of heavyweights after that. The first loop tends to be
> fastest...makes me wonder about weight and *speed*. The first heavyweight
> to finish the 50 was in 24th place overall.
>
> Then in the 100 miler, there were 6 heavyweights entered. Four finished.
> The first heavyweight to finish was 12th overall.
>
> If I was a heavyweight I'd try to go farther, not faster. :-)
>
> Angie
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