Originally Posted by Shaun

On the subject of weight, if i were a trainer i would be training my horses with riders 5 to 10 kg above racing weights, now not saying i have any idea on how to train but think of it this way, say you have 2 humans, one weights 50kg and another 60 kg and they run in match races all the time, if you suddenly added 10 kg weight to the 50 kg person they would definitely notice it, try it yourself, add 10 kg extra weight and do your normal daily thing, now think of a race horse weighting around 600kg obviously the weight of a jockey makes a different and so does the weight scale it would seam, now if the horses are used to running around with jockeys why not add some extra weight, i suppose it doesn't have to be a bigger jockey it could just be lead bags, come race day wouldn't the horse go "oh ******** this is much easier than training"