Not enough or too much?

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by Riot

If you think this about whips, what in the world do you think about bits?

Apples and oranges.

Forget the bits for a second and you tell me how a jockey is supposed to whip the horse with just enough force to encourage him but not too much to injure or cause a welt.

The jockeys need to make split second decisions during a race and in addition to that they need to whip the horse with the perfect amount of force ?

Safety for themselves,other riders and the horse are paramount and secondary is their commitment to owners,trainers and bettors to get the horse to the finish line as fast as possible. If the industry can't find equipment designed to help them do their job without injuring the animal whose fault is that ?

I have no idea what the particulars of these two incidents are. If the horses in question were backing up out of contention and the jockeys were whipping them mercilessly then that's one thing. It's another thing if the horse was in a position to affect the parimutuel payoffs.