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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: Generation XYZ on June 18, 2023, 08:03:44 PM

Title: Do you think a horse's current weight is a meaningful factor for handicapping?
Post by: Generation XYZ on June 18, 2023, 08:03:44 PM: Santa Anita posts each horses weight during race broadcasts. Do you think this would be an informative factor for a harness handicapping? To be it seems to be more useless info.
Title: Re: Do you think a horse's current weight is a meaningful factor for handicapping?
Post by: Yonkers1A on June 18, 2023, 08:12:09 PM: It could possibly be useful. In the T breds if you have a heavy 1st time starter and next time out he’s dropped some pounds, that is an angle.
Title: Re: Do you think a horse's current weight is a meaningful factor for handicapping?
Post by: Generation XYZ on June 18, 2023, 08:14:51 PM: Quote from: Yonkers1A on June 18, 2023, 08:12:09 PM
It could possibly be useful. In the T breds if you have a heavy 1st time starter and next time out he’s dropped some pounds, that is an angle.

Reason for the question was some drastic weight differences in a few of the classes. one example was a 260 weight differential from lightest to heaviest all tho most others were equally matched within 60 to 150 pounds of one another.