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Originally Posted by paisjpq
did a research project on weight assignments a few years back and found this tidbit--don't know who it is credited to though.
"for every pound added over 8 furlongs (one mile) slows a horse by approximately 1 length or about 1/5 of a second."
but obviously a good horse is a good horse and a great horse will carry whatever you put on his back and win--for example Dr. F ager won carrying 134 or Native Dancer in the 50's won carrying 137 for 7 furlongs
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we in europe strongly believe that weight matters and its usually a length per pound diff over a mile. I believe that weight does matter and especially in G1 races, it should be Weight for age. The best horse should win. Take last week's turf race with Cacique and co. Grey Swallow and English Channel were judged to have run better races than the actual winner.