(May 6, 2019 at 12:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 6, 2019 at 12:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I kinda figured that, but the funny thing is, all the clips I saw after the fact on the news, I really couldn't see it. I am sure that is only because it happens so fast and I am not used to watching the sport. Would also explain all the fights in NASCAR when someone gets bumped.
Kinda like in pass interference in the NFL, sometimes it happens so fast you don't see it real time till they slow it down in the replay. I get what you are saying. But the funny thing is in all the clips I saw in the news, none of them got put in slow motion. I mean only the ones I saw.
Yea I get it now, and safety wise it makes sense to call it, because the other Jockey could fall off and get trampled.
Worse, this sort of thing can make a horse stumble and fall, which can cause other horses to fall. If that had happened, you'd have (instead of a disqualification) the very real possibility of dead horses and jockeys.
Boru
True.
I've seen clips like that before in my life. Fortunately nobody got severely injured in the clips I saw, but it makes sense. Horses are tall, and even if the horse doesn't get injured the Jockey has a long distance to fall and, if anyone remembers Reeves, that wasn't even a race and he still landed on his neck.
I love looking at horses, and even petting them when they are leaning their necks over a stable, but they are F ING HUGE. I've always been intimidated by their size. Not because I feared them being mean, but merely because they are big and powerful.
And I tried riding one once in my late teens. I do not for the life of me see how anyone stays on them when they are running full speed with all that bouncing.
