Re: Newbie query: why required weight?

[Susan Evans Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Jerry Fruth wrote:
> 
> 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


I don't race at Fwt or Lwt speeds.  For that matter, I don't race, I'm a
completer and happy (and as of today, really muscle-sore but still
grinning foolishly) to be there.  But there is a difference between a
horse whose muscles, cardiovascular system, soft and dense tissues have
been conditioned to only carry 125 lbs.; and then suddenly adding 100
lbs to his load---and a horse whose system has been conditioned for
years to carry 210 lbs., and races at that weight.  So before we issue
challenges, which need to compare apples to apples, not apples to
oranges.:-)

Susan G