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Conditions racing is intended to measure the merit of performance at set weights while handicapping is intended to level the performance at different weights; the former is expected to establish the quality of competing individuals while the latter is expected to produce the closest possible finish.
First and foremost, racefigures ensure that the better horses win more races.
A public handicapper should be a man of independent circumstances, in every sense of the word, and beyond suspicion of accepting illicit compensation for favours received
The official handicapper must work on the assumption that most horses are inherently consistent, and reproduce their best form for periods at a time – if not all the time. By measuring what is regarded as normal form, and expressing it in a figure, horses can be matched against each other and the playing field be levelled.
The Marx Brothers demonstrate how to make money at the races
Catalogue and physical checklists on how to buy a horse – for prospective buyers of thoroughbred racehorses.
Tom Ivers looks at the influence that equine exercise physiology has on bone density in the racehorse
Queen of the Turf and a public idol in her day, King’s Pact was one of the most famous race mares ever produced in South Africa.
A former SA Champion jockey and 3-time Met winner, sends out his first runner in the Met
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
