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I can't have any of this nonsense, Tanlic.

Giving weight-away in handicaps is a tried-and-tested way of measuring a horse's true worth. It would only ever be considered an "over-rated past-time" by the kind of mincer who thinks going undefeated "like Frankel" is more important than testing the horse to the limit.

Kumbeshwar is a daft example, but if SS is ever entered in a handicap where he's due to give weight to the likes of Sizing Europe, Finian's Rainbow or any of those which followed him home in the Arkle, we'd find out a lot more about him than we would against the same horses at levels.

It was a crime when The Chandler was changed from a handicap.

[QUOTE="Grasshopper, post: 2415266, member: 65342"] I can't have any of this nonsense, Tanlic. Giving weight-away in handicaps is a tried-and-tested way of measuring a horse's true worth. It would only ever be considered an "over-rated past-time" by the kind of mincer who thinks going undefeated "like Frankel" is more important than testing the horse to the limit. Kumbeshwar is a daft example, but if SS is ever entered in a handicap where he's due to give weight to the likes of Sizing Europe, Finian's Rainbow or any of those which followed him home in the Arkle, we'd find out a lot more about him than we would against the same horses at levels. It was a crime when The Chandler was changed from a handicap. [/QUOTE]

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