dont you think it would be fitting

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Handicaps would help.

Like you mention, today was a Group 1 race where he faced three other horses and one of the three was his hapless rabbit in to set the pace for him -- and the other was 5th and 20th in his only two prior starts in Graded Stakes.

If this was the 1930's -- he'd have given those two horses 60lbs each. But, it was weight-for-age, so he gave them nothing.

It was a 400k+ race too. You'd think that some guy with a middling handicapper would take a shot to try to get a piece of the purse behind him.