Kentucky Handicap Horse Racing: A History of the Great Weight Carriers by Melanie Greene

Kentucky Handicap Horse Racing: A History of the Great Weight Carriers

Melanie Greene

146 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sports medium-paced

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In a handicap, horses are assigned weights based on their past performances as a way to try to create evenly matched fields. The better the horse, the heavier the weight assigned. In the United States, handicaps once accounted for the majority of ...

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