Posted on 05/21/2019 8:12:27 PM PDT by SamAdams76
There was a horse-race the other day where one of the horses threw off its jockey at the beginning of the horse race called the Preekness and the riderless horse finished the race nevertheless.
The jockey was a short little guy and that might have had something to do with him being thrown off. Maybe if the jockey was strong, tall and heavy, he or she would have held on?
Anyway, if the riderless horse went ahead and won the race, would it count as a victory? I'm thinking that without the additional weight of a jockey, the horse would have a bit of an advantage?
Am I crazy for thinking that?
In honor of that horse-race, I link to a song that is about horses
Riderless horse is a DQ
Why would a riderless horse want to keep competing?
Yeah, DQ’d immediately
The jockey had his spleen removed from an accident about five years ago. A jockey, female, won at Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts this past weekend; she overcame brain damage and more suffered two years ago from an accident in West Virginia. Jockeys don’t have an easy task.
Yep, that’s what I heard to.
There was one case where a rider was thrown off the saddle, but he literally held the horse by its’ neck when it crossed, but it was a valid win, because he stayed on the horse.
The winner is the qualified horse and rider that finishes first. A horse is qualified if it has run the race without fouls, and it had a rider that has also had no fouls. A horse by itself is not qualified.
It’s a very dangerous situation because a lot of times a horse will panic if the jockey falls off, it was very fortunate that no other horses/jockeys were in peril.
In the 1920s, a jockey died midrace in New York. He was credited with the victory when his horse finished first.
Why would a riderless horse want to keep competing?
That would be rather a spectacular sight to see if that happened. The horseless jockey might not officially win the race but I think he or she would be pretty famous. Beating the horses after being thrown off! Now that would be a sight to behold.
They would have to do something for that jockey. Maybe a trophy and a lifetime membership to a Spin Class club.
That is why Davy Jones took up singing in a late 60’s boy band.
See post #7
Herd mentality?
"Hmmm, The "PREEKness", huh?
Dairy Queen? You mean the hamburgers are horse meat? ;-)
I would still call it a win. It is a horse race, not a jokey race.
No, not crazy. Something else...
:)
This opens the possibility of radio-controlled horses.
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