I finally got around to renting Seabiscuit. While as a whole I enjoyed the film, what spoiled it for me were the scenes where the jockeys engage in conversation during a race. It may be a lot to ask to have any jockeys in the SDMB, but if there are any would you please respond to this:
Is it possible to talk to a fellow jockey during a race? I think that during a race you would be concentrating on your horse’s pace and looking at how the horses in front of you are running and looking for holes to run into that you’d never have time to talk during a race. If you said anything to another jockey, it might be something like “coming thru” so they don’t cut you off in their blind spot. But these guys were having 20 second conversations during a race. Is that remotely possible?