Remsen/Cigar

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I don't believe weight matters, but the weights for this race are beyond ludicrous and smell of cowtowing to Silver Train's connections to get him to run. For the winner of last year's BC Sprint, this year's Met Mile and Tom Fool to be getting 4 pounds ( and six on scale ) from the winner of an allowance race and the Jerome is absurd beyond belief. I wasn't aware that weights were assigned based on speed figures and reputations.

Believe me, the weights won't matter, but the assignments in this race are merely further proof that handicap races should be done away with.

I agree with just about all of this. There is no way in the world that Discreet Cat should be assigned more weight than Silver Train. I also don't think the weights will matter in this race either. When u say that u don't believe weight matters, were u speaking specifically of this race or do u mean in general?

Just realized I have it wrong. The scale actually says that 3yo's get three pounds from older at a mile in November. So Discreet Cat was assigned 127.