Re: Weight in Derby Preps (504 Views)
Posted by:
ajkreider (IP Logged)
Date: April 09, 2014 04:04PM
It's not even clear to me what the motivation is to have handicap weights. I'd thought handicapping provides an incentive to on-the-fence connections. They maybe think they compete with better horses, and so they enter - the result being full fields.
But the Derby points are incentive enough. Just look at the Bluegrass - it has an overload field, and will send 14 out the gate - all at 123 pounds.
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