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Weight-for-age: the spring’s truest test
Handicaps are a puzzle of weight and value. Weight-for-age is simpler and, in its way, harder: the best horse is meant to win, and usually does.
Why the weight-for-age races are the ones the good judges watch most closely, and what they tell us about the season.
Image: Flemington Racecourse, via Wikimedia Commons.
