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What would happen if a horse threw off its jockey and the riderless horse won the horse-race?
May 21, 2019
| Curious non-jockey
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
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To: poinq
That’s probably true, but then why is a race won “by a nose” referring to the horse’s nose and not the jockey’s nose?
To: SamAdams76
To: SamAdams76
Maybe if the jockey was strong, tall and heavy, he or she would have held on?Racing jockeys and "strong, tall and heavy" do not go together.
How would this guy even get his pony to the finish line before it collapsed?
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05/21/2019 11:22:27 PM PDT
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henbane
To: SamAdams76
It’s a horse race, not a jockey race. Winning by a nose doesn’t have anything to do with the jockey’s nose. Sadly, that’s not the way the rules are written but they should be.
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05/22/2019 12:15:49 AM PDT
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bgill
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To: Churchillspirit; SamAdams76; bgill; henbane; Hillarys Gate Cult; Chad_the_Impaler; ...
This problem is of course eliminated in dog racing. However without a rider to guide the animal, the animal is more likely to veer off course.
For example, the dog in the gif below decided he'd rather chase a REAL rabbit that had wandered onto the track than that silly old mechanical one the other dogs were chasing...
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05/22/2019 2:20:35 AM PDT
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05/22/2019 2:26:43 AM PDT
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Riderless racing dogs tent to "showboat" more than horses. Especially when they have a huge lead and about to win easily...
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05/22/2019 2:33:29 AM PDT
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05/22/2019 2:35:42 AM PDT
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To: mountn man
So, is it a horse race or a jockey race?
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05/22/2019 2:36:13 AM PDT
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05/22/2019 2:57:04 AM PDT
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That would have been the one I had placed my bet on. 8>)
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05/22/2019 3:01:21 AM PDT
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To: SamAdams76
Automatically disqualified.
A riderless horse on the track is dangerous to itself and all of the other horses.
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05/22/2019 3:35:50 AM PDT
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LOl! I wonder if he ever caught the little rascal.
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05/22/2019 3:45:14 AM PDT
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To: SamAdams76
I too imagine the handicapped weight being “compromised’ would disqualify the horse.
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05/22/2019 4:49:11 AM PDT
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05/22/2019 5:02:07 AM PDT
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bgill
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To: trebb; SamAdams76
I too imagine the handicapped weight being compromised would disqualify the horse. What if a NASCA driver fell out of the car approaching the finish line and the car went on to finish first?
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05/22/2019 5:07:12 AM PDT
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To: Chad_the_Impaler
Thats probably true, but then why is a race won by a nose referring to the horses nose and not the jockeys nose?
A horse race is a horse and Jockey pair. The pair reaches the finish when the first part of the horse,s nose (not leg) and not the jockey or equipment breaks the finish line. If the jockey reaches his whip forward to break the finish line, that does not count.
Not that it matters, but the same is true when humans run the 100 meter race. The body, not the arms or legs of the human counts when breaking the finish line.
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posted on
05/22/2019 6:44:46 AM PDT
by
poinq
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