Game Time

[stretchypanda]

Re: Game Time

You are two-thirds correct.

[Squeek]

Re: Game Time

Just because horse racing is an Olympic event doesn't mean it's a sport.

In an event where the horse is doing 95% of the work, how can you give the jockey the credit for the victory?

And now that I've actually gone and looked it up, not even the Olympics considers horse racing a sport. Just vaulting and the such. See, now that makes sense, because it takes a lot more effort from the jockey to make the horse jump and prepare for a second jump.

[Wilkin]

Re: Game Time

Go Smarty Jones.

[JKPolk]

Re: Game Time



I Dragonboated today. Far more fun than watching horses run in circles for 5 minutes.

[stretchypanda]

Re: Game Time

Wow that was beyond disappointing.

[Wilkin]

Re: Game Time

Good thing I put my entire life savings on a horse with 38:1 odds.

[sumzup]

Re: Game Time

Also women's gymnastics is on, and it is awesome.

I concur completely. Extremely awesome.

[Izzy]

Re: Game Time

Horses are boring.

[stretchypanda]

Re: Game Time

no u

[igotrhythm]

Re: Game Time

Go Big Brown! Join the ranks of elite horses such as Man O' War, Seabiscuit, and Affirmed! Have lots of foals that horse trainers will fight tooth and nail for! Gogogogogogo!

[stretchypanda]

Re: Game Time

Go Big Brown! Join the ranks of elite horses such as Man O' War, Seabiscuit, and Affirmed! Have lots of foals that horse trainers will fight tooth and nail for! Gogogogogogo!

...what.

Also we have a horse that is descended from Man o' War.

[All_That_Chaz]

Re: Game Time

How I race horse?

[stretchypanda]

Re: Game Time

By the way Squeek, the rider does have a lot to do with how the horse performs. Not to say the jockey is the one doing all the work, but a horse wouldn't be any good without a talented rider.

[All_That_Chaz]

Re: Game Time

I don't know I think of horse-racing like I think of nascar. The participants really are the teams of people behind breeding/raising/training/maintaining the horse or building/maintaining the car. The jockey/driver are just there to execute what that horse or car was made to do. Of course there's a level of skill involved in it, but they're just one part of it.

Of course I don't know crap about horse-racing.

[stretchypanda]

Re: Game Time

Well yeah the training is really the big deal, but a good rider knows how long his horse needs to be held back, when to turn him loose, when something is wrong with him (it's like driving a car and feeling something off). In a typical horse ownership, the training is done by the primary rider.