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It is interesting that Greg Carpenter should rate the 2015 Caulfield Cup as the strongest ever.
The handicaps did not seem to support that theory — not one horse in the final field was weighted to carry weight-for-age.
Were they in fact an ordinary lot or were the handicaps far too low? I am inclined to think the latter.
The minimum weights for the cups are many kilos higher than they were years ago and yet it seems compulsory these days that no horse shall carry more than 58kg.
No wonder so many high-quality overseas horses are coming for the rich prizemoney available, with such generous handicapping.
The way things are shaping, handicapping is going out of fashion.
The recent Epsom in Sydney was one example of the effect of this terrible computer-based handicapping, with hardly any difference between the top and bottom weights.
We might as well have all weight-for-age or set-weight races.
Frankston South (Vic)