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Message: [QUOTE="bigmike, post: 4335410, member: 3928"] Interesting, and it was a thing of beauty. You are obviously closer to the game than I. What I’m wondering is, how to jockeys racing behind the leader evaluate the “staying power” of a horse loose on the lead - (say, clear by > 2 lengths)? Obviously, you have past form to consider coupled with the pursuing jockey’s inner clocks and related calculations of how much energy the front runner is expending. But are there also auditory clues that they evaluate like breathing, jockey chirps, turnover, etc? And if there are, do they lose the ability to pick them up if they fall too far behind? Also would wind have an effect? I guess what I’m asking is can the loss of these auditory clues make a pursuing jockey lose some of their edge, or make them move too soon? Or, am I just over complicating everything? [/QUOTE]