The trumpets are sounding, the horses are lining up a the gate. The KentuckyDerby is about to begin. Before the big race, find out more about the science behind America's most popular horse race.
Some horses love to lead right out of the gate, and others trail first and surge ahead later on, but there’s a benefit to sticking with the pack. A study published in The Royal Society Biology Letters in 2012 analyzed roughly 3,300 races and found that horses that stay back just a bit and let other horses cut their wind resistance, or draft, can decrease their aerodynamic drag by 13 percent.
The mix of sediments in these three layers is, in the words of Goldilocks, just right. The variety in both the sediments themselves and the size of their particles helps ensure a couple of things: that the track isn’t too hard, which would damage the horses’ legs, and that it isn’t too soft, which would mean more work for the racers to propel themselves forward, much like how we struggle to run in dry sand.
The mix of sediments in the track's three layers is, in the words of Goldilocks, just right. The variety in both the sediments themselves and the size of their particles helps ensure a couple of things: that the track isn’t too hard, which would damage the horses’ legs, and that it isn’t too soft, which would mean more work for the racers to propel themselves forward, much like how we struggle to run in dry sand.
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