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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Unless I am mistaken, the racing rulebook states that all the jockeys in all the races are obligated to put forth their best effort so that their mounts attain the best finishing position possible. Am I wrong about this? And if I am right...how do the trainers get away with using actual races for "conditioning" purposes?
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You're right. Indeed, most technically, trainers are supposed to be trying to win too.
In reality, of course, nobody ever enforces this except in the case of obvious stiff jobs, and I am not sure you really could.
Interestingly, I would actually guess that this was MORE of a problem in the past, when horses were "raced into condition". In that era, trainers often entered horses to "give them a race" and instructed jockeys not to make the horse exert too much. Nowadays, a lot more trainers use workouts instead.
