ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: carrying weight

Re: carrying weight

carl meyer (carlmey@citrus.infi.net)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:58:37 +0000

I answered that you didn't factor in speed nor muscle structure.
Secondly, you could have gone to any racetrack and asked any groom "why
do they use exercise boys in the AM verus jockeys" and they could have
told you that "they want more weight in the AM so as to run faster in
the afternoon with less weight" turned away winked and said to himself
"what a greeny".
I beat everyone in the Southeast in 1987,88,89 and 90 at 164lbs. in 1994
at 181lbs. I was getting beat by the same riders especially if I choose
to run with them the last quarter of mile.I would have them beat by two
lengths until the last 10 yds. then my horses' ears would flop and they
would run by me.
I want you to ask any Navy Seal or Green Beret " if they fought better
with a pack on or without a pack".
I would ask you to take a 10lb. pack and train with another person
without a pack of comparable physical ability then race over a course
...see who wins.
When you multiply speed times weight then distance becomes your
denominator and fatique is the answer. Anerobic fatique increases over
distance and sets in faster when speed is increased. Asked any endurance
rider that rides with a heart monitor at what rate does he/she know when
their horse is in anerobic fatique. My horse goes into anerobic fatique
when the rate goes over 188 after 25 miles. He has over 2000 race miles
The other side of the coin is ---- do you know if the horses that you
monitored were coming to the race peaked or were they tailing off.
That's the question that all the scientific work has yet to answer...Is
this horse peaked for the race...If we could answer that we could go to
the pari-mutual windows and collect our money....then no one would have
to work for a living!!!
I am afraid you haven't told us anymore than any racetrack tout or poor
racetrack groom couldn't have told us.
One thing I can tell you is "Don't bet your money on the horse that
carries the heavyweight against any winning featherweight" if you do you
will wind selling the "Green Sheet" like all the losers!!!
Carl

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