Question about carrying weight

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Originally Posted by brockguy

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.

i agree weight does matter but you can't disute what the great ones did, that's why they are considered great