What would happen if a horse threw off its jockey and the riderless horse won the horse-race?

May 21, 2019 | Curious non-jockey

[trebb]

Don’t know - does NASCAR require the driver’s weight be taken into account for the total car weight?
Buuuuut...with the push for driver-less cars, do you foresee a day when the car races w/o a driver and the pit crew also has some extra computer nerds in it?

[trebb]

Yep - can’t see the saddle getting on the scale w/o the jockey holding it.

[MayflowerMadam]

At that race, did I hear correctly that the name of one of the horses was, “Covfefe”?

[Hot Tabasco]

The jockey was a short little guy and that might have had something to do with him being thrown off.

They all are....There's no such thing as a tall, heavy jockey.....LOL!

[Hot Tabasco]

The horse is probably thinking “I finally got that monkey off my back...”

[ETL]

Don’t know - does NASCAR require the driver’s weight be taken into account for the total car weight?

Like I said earlier about horse racing, it's not a matter of a riderless horse having less weight, it's simply in the rules that a jockey has to be aboard a horse as it crosses the finish line in order for the effort to officially count, although jockeys DO have to weigh in before AND AFTER a race (with saddle) in order to prove they didn't 'shed' any weight during the race.

In any case, I wondered if the rules would be similar with NASCAR regarding a driver being in the car as it crossed the finish line. I'd bet my right arm that it is.

[trebb]

I’m still fuzzy on it - the only way i can see a driver-less NASCAR vehicle crossing the finish line w/o the driver is if a yards-away accident happened - and i can picture the team/driver/car being declared the winner if it occurred so the vehicle crossed first since the odds of it not inning w/o the accident would be pretty low...but not impossible....might have to see if NACSAR has rules on the subject.

[ETL]

I can’t imagine how it could ever happen either. Just asking or wondering what if it somehow did.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Hard to believe, that “race the other day” was the PreAkness, one of the premier races all year, and not the Miss Preakness Stakes which was the day prior. The Preakness itself had poor Bodexpress (one of the MANY ruined by Max Security in the Derby) unseat his jock.

The Miss Preakness was won by Covfefe, sure to be a sprinting filly star this year, setting a track record by a full second which is amazing. Marred by another long shot finishing and then dropping dead.

[trebb]

Tried to look it up and saw provisions for changing cars and drivers (penalty is to start at end of field) but couldn’t find anything that says the driver has to be in the vehicle - seems they doubt it would be an issue for the winning car...

[ETL]

couldn’t find anything that says the driver has to be in the vehicle - seems they doubt it would be an issue for the winning car...

Lol! But, as we who have lived long enough to know, are aware, crazy and totally unpredictable things do happen. I'm sure if we gave it some thought you and I can come up with a possible scenario where a driver could somehow not be in his car as it crossed the finish line. Might take us awhile, though! :)

[TMN78247]

Pardon me for asking but what exactly do the rules for NASCAR have to do with horseracing, any more than the rules of the NFL have to the NBA and/or to horseracing??

The long-established rules of horseracing are that IF a horse loses its rider for ANY reason during the race, the horse is automatically disqualified. - It’s just that simple.

Makes NO sense to this former horseman.

Yours, TMN78247

[RevelationDavid]

TMN78247 wrote:

The long-established rules of horseracing are that IF a horse loses its rider for ANY reason during the race, the horse is automatically disqualified. - It’s just that simple.

Makes NO sense to this former horseman.

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horse runs faster without a rider...if legal jockeys would be jumping off their mounts.

[trebb]

The rules have nothing to do with each other...we decided to have some fun with it.....wipe the long face off as there’s no reason to neigh-say us for it...see?

[TMN78247]

Pardon me for noting that while YOU may have been “having everyone on” some here (and even in the “sporting press”) are too clueless to understand that one sport’s rules have zilch to do with another sport’s.

So “no long face” but simply impatience with DUMB-bunnies.

Yours, TMN78247

[trebb]

How pathetic that you can’t grasp that we were having fun with a concept....you must be related to some snowflakes - don’t forget to read my tagline...it may make you dislike me even more...but if it applies, your opinions mean even less to me than they do now....hope your ass ain’t too chapped and this doesn’t spur you to emotional problems....jock-o

[TMN78247]

Laughing AT you & all the other DIM-wits on Planet Earth who see themselves as “just so special”. = Your comment makes you sound like one of the DIMocRATS, btw, who was born with a chip on their shoulder.

I just, at 72YO, have little patience with those persons, who think that they shouldn’t have to follow the same rules as everyone else does.

Yours, TMN78247