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To me the only alternative to the handicap system is no handicap system, not one man's tinkering.

DO you said it yourself when you said what if there was a 4f race run for a million pounds. The answer is simple, it wouldn't be a handicap! Phil Smith is trying to take some kind of hybrid approach to the National and it's fundamentally unfair on 90% of the runners.

Surely that's evidenced by a 50% win rate in the last 4 years by horses advantaged by Smith from little more than 10% representation. He is deciding the result not the handicap system which horses have run to for their entire career.

[QUOTE="Maruco, post: 2520053, member: 65063"] To me the only alternative to the handicap system is no handicap system, not one man's tinkering. DO you said it yourself when you said what if there was a 4f race run for a million pounds. The answer is simple, it wouldn't be a handicap! Phil Smith is trying to take some kind of hybrid approach to the National and it's fundamentally unfair on 90% of the runners. Surely that's evidenced by a 50% win rate in the last 4 years by horses advantaged by Smith from little more than 10% representation. He is deciding the result not the handicap system which horses have run to for their entire career. [/QUOTE]

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