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Originally Posted by ninetoone
Just to clarify, I don't have a big problem with the time of the work, just the fact that Pino apparently didn't know how fast he was going.
I would think that after that many rides, you would be able to work a horse for 5 furlongs & be able to come back & say, "that was a 57" or something like that. Maybe I'm in a dream world, but this is a long race & I want my jockey to know when the pace is a 57, or a 1:09, etc, etc...and respond appropriately.
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Assume that a particular jock is accustomed to getting on a particular horse and he becomes familiar with the horses stride is relation to effort put forth.
Now, what if, on a particular day, the horse is putting forth the same effort YET going faster? (It feel better; it likes the track; etc.)
There are 2 factors in play here:
1) the speed they're actually travelling -- and here the jock should be able to distinguish between faster and slower speed
2) the speed in relation to the effort --- not so easy a task as one could undertand how a jock would conflate speed with effort.
But, you're probably correct, PINO is incompetent.
You can easily prove this by getting out there on a track or road bike, WITHOUT a speedometer, and readily predict your speed on any given day.
You could, in a perfect world.