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Another horsey question
- Thread starter Monkey
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If the race is a handicap the handicapper gives them a certain amount of weight to carry based on past performances to try and make it equal for all horses in the race. The idea being that they would all cross the line together and in order to win the race a horse would have to improve its performance. This is only the case for handicaps though. There are other complications such as allowances for mares, penalties for previous wins within a certain time and age allowances too
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shouldn't this thread be in the general chat room? nvm!:lol:
Yeah, i don't really know how it ended up in here?
tigerangel
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Wow that’s interesting, I always thought it was because some of the jockeys were fatter than others so the lighter ones needed to be weighted :lol:
It is that also eg if a horse has been allocated to carry ten stone in a race and the jockey and saddle only weigh 9 and a half stone the rest of the ten stone will be made up with lead weights in the saddle cloth
