Then why wouldn't it be critical to know what mass the horse was moving each individual race??
In other words, a important factor should be what the horse itself weighed in each race in which it competed in addition to what weight in carried in the form of the live weight of the jockey and the dead weight of the weights in the saddle pads.
In another thread it was reported that a horse on lasix can shed as much as 20 pounds. And in a state like NY, lasix is administered just 4 hrs. before the race.
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