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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
The stakes schedule is announced months ago. The fact is that they are running that races as under allowance conditions which will allow the reining horse of the year to carry 116 and possibly get weight from others in the race is a joke. I hope they get 1 entry and have to decided if they will run a walk over or not. People like Porter and Jones begging for weight and then only running the horse 5 times a year is something that should bring scorn, not praise.
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Yes I know that and the nom forms have been out as long too.
I've been looking around because I really don't get why this weight became an issue, it is restricted to fillies and mares she's not taking on the boys.
I glance at the condition books but don't read them in detail, so perhaps I'm not understanding something.
I looked at both nom forms for the Azeri and NO Ladies
Azeri is 122 with weight drops for NON-Winners at certain distances which is normal.
NO Ladies is 123 with the same above, normal conditions.
Then the Azeri form says see reverse side for additional info but you can't look at that.
NO Ladies doesn't add any info on reverse.
So as I see it her last race out she won 300K in the in the BC classic, 210K in the Beldame and 450K in the Woodward, with a 4th last out, then prior 1st and 1st. And she carried 123 in the BC classic and the Woodward.
Where did her connections get that she would only carry 117 in the Azeri, while she was a non-winner it says non-winner of 60K. That's what started this whole thing,that she was going to get less weight in the Azeri. Am I reading something wrong?
I'm glad she is running here and I will get to see it... but I really don't understand why this has become an issue. I get the purse money issue but not the weight.
As an aside RA who the race was written for carried 123 to Zardana's 122
And Ravi's Song last years winner who runs some nice stakes races but is not on par with Rachel or HDG carried 121.
Your absolutely right that it screws the other entries, I was simply pointing out that the weight issue came up because of OP and the Azeri, it wasn't like the FG just said oh well let's give her a low weight. I had not looked at OP's nom form and now I'm really confused why this even became an issue.
Either way at either track shouldn't she be carrying 122 at OP and 123 at the FG?