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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
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
