For those that love conspiracies and weight shifts

[mark2061mn]

Originally Posted by Honu

Actually dead weight is the saddle and any lead that might be in it , live weight is the jockey , there has always been a debate as to which impedes the horse more.

In my over 20 years of watching and/or betting races, it's become quite clear to me that jockies are nothing more than dead weight.

now, if you really want to handicap a horse with weight, i propose the following method of grading weight handicaps:

make each jockey submit themselves to some sort of high tech brain scan. the purpose of this will be to determine the actual weight of each jockey's brain.

then, when assigning weight handicaps, make it publicly known the actual weight of each jocks brain.

so, for instance, in a 6 horse handicap, the high weighted horse will have to spot the low weighted horse anywhere from 1-3 ounces.

i think this is a much more useful gauge than anything currently used!