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To: E who wrote (209)2/7/2002 10:07:26 PM
From: Annette  Read Replies (1) of 234
 
I found this...
By the mid-’50s, American racing was huge, with nearly 100 recognized racecourses in operation. Affluent tracks began to compete aggressively for big-name runners and did so by offering enormous purses and lenient weight assignments. Thus, a trainer found himself with choices not available before. If he felt his horse was unfairly weighted for a specific race, he could easily seek competition elsewhere.

To keep top horses in their races, some racing secretaries instituted the “limited handicap,” wherein a 130-pound ceiling was set for races at a mile and beyond. (At his record-breaking best in 1956, Swaps never carried more than 130 pounds.) While horsemen generally approved of this system, it undeniably robbed the sport of drama. The era of heroic weight carriers was not over by 1960, but its days were surely numbered."

But I think even Man O war was weighted in the early 1900's

Annette
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