As an owner I obviously want all the purse money I can get - I expect a jockey to ride my horse in the manner that will get the horse to give its maximum effort. I don't want the jockey beating the cr*p out of my horse if the horse is totally gassed and finishing up the track but the jock damn well better keep trying if he think the horse can get up there and score us a better check.
This would worry me if stewards starting make a habit out of this...
And I've hit myself with the whip to see what it felt like, it makes a nice *pop* noise and has a little sting to it but it's not bad - certainly not bad for a 1,000 pound animal.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Handicapping
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