Finally ... At Last ... A Real Handicap Race

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

It's the New York Turf Writers' Cup today at Saratoga.

Champion and highweight Hirapour ... gives 10 pounds to the second highweight ... and 26 pounds to the two low weights ... and ... it's not a 5f sprint ... these boys are going 19f over the jumps.

And look at the weights ... Hirapour 164 ... low weights 138.

What a contrast to today's usual "handicaps" ... where the "highweight" carries 118 pounds ... and "gives" three whole pounds to the "low weight."

God bless the jumpers ... the last of the professional thoroughbred race horses.

Oh yeah...nothing more exciting than watching a race where half the runners fall down or don't finish.

Oh how I await with baited breath for this race...