RC: "Weighty issue"

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

Truman Prevatt wrote:

> If "weight is not a factor", then the distribution of the top 10 as far as weight
> division will mirror the distribution in the entire ride.  That is as far as
> weight divisions go, if there were 25% HW riders in a ride, then you would find
> on the average 25% HW's in the top 10.

 Well, now, Truman, I'm not sure that it would be the case that if there were 25% of
HW riders in a ride that you'd expect to find 25% of top 10 to be HW.  First you'd
have to decide if it was likely that 100% of the HW riders were trying to get to top
10.  I think the true test would be if you took a number of equally matched horses,
put varying weight of riders on their backs, all of whom are motivated to get to the
top 10, THEN determined what the ratios of entrants to top 10 placer weights was.
Lif

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