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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
If you raise it 10 pounds don't you think you will have people who were once a bit too big to be a jockey, now trying to be one. How do you think they will trying to make weight? Probably the same way. No matter how high or low the weights are, someone will be a bit too big and will be doing things not too healthy to try and make weight.
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I don't see that as a reason not to raise weights. It's far easier to find humans who can remain healthy at a weight 10lbs over current, especially women. We shouldn't ignore that people have gotten markedly bigger over the last 100 years. Why do you think so few Americans (comparably) are jockeys? Americans have reaped the health and nutritional benefits of living here for decades and decades, compared to people from many other countries. We're huge.
And I think Lucas got really tired of tons of reporters asking him about the wonderfully close personal relationship between Antley and Charismatic, and finally set them straight.
Antley was a very gifted jockey. It's a shame he succumbed to his personal demons, it seemed so promising for him the last year of his life, with a new wife and baby.