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THE EXPERIMENTAL HANDICAP OF THE TWO YEAR OLDS OF 1920 By W S VOSBURGH For several years past it has been the custom at the close of the season in England for the handi capper of the Jockey Club to publish his estimate of the twoyearolds of the season in what is called the Fret Handicap It serves ho purpose other than to excite interest in the events for threeyearolds of the season following such as the Epsom Derby Two Thousand Guineas Newmarket Stakes and the Doncastcr St Leger The weights are based upon the form of the colts and fillies as twoyearolds hence it is not n reliable guide to what they will do as threeyearolds As evidence of this it need only be stated that from 190 to 1920 inclusive only one topweight in the Free Handicaj has won the Derby Filinella 191T although Craganour in 1913 finished first but was disqualified Only one top weight in the Free Handicap has ever won the St Leger Rayardo in 1909 Neil Gow The Panther and Tctratema all topweights have won the Two Thousand Guineas however Tin winner of last seasons Derby Spion Kop was not among the first fortytwo weighted in the Free Handicap of 1919 1919It It has often been suggested to me that 1 make a similar Free Handicap not for the purpose of a race but a rating of the twoyearolds of the year publishing it after the close of the seasons racing I have been reluctant to do so believing that there could be little of value to anyone in such a compila ¬ tion and because people in this country being unused to the custom inightbe misled into the belief that I put It forth as my estimate of what the colts would do as threeyearolds threeyearoldsHowever However at the close of the racing season of 1920 I compiled the list presented below t must he understood as my estimate of the horses as twoyearolds and in no sense is influenced by any opinion I may entertain of their relative merits for future racing Nor do I consider myself bound if engaged in making a handicap in the fiifure to consider the above allotment The racing of 1921 may utterly rev ¬ olutionize the form of 1920 as frequently happens in the relative form of two and threeyearolds Often the crack twoyearold of the previous year utterly fails to stay the longer distances of the events for threeyearolds threeyearoldsFor For example the Futurity winners How many of them have failed nt a mile and onequarter or more at three V Again there are often colts that are poor beginners at two they are outrun but at three over long distances they reverse the racing of the previous year The Experimental Handicap then is presented as a memorandum of the form of the twoyear olds of 1920 assuming they had been nominated for such a race It embraces only such colts and fillies of whose performances I have been an eyewitness This of course excludes some no doubt real good ones that raced in the West exclusively It gives my own idea of their merits though not always rela ¬ tively for if some were not included as would be the cast in an ordinary handicap it might make some difference in weight between those which remained When a great number of horses are nominated it is more dillicult to make as accurate an apportionment oil WiJghtsjiJLjvhen then Horse HorseTrvster Trvster Inchcape Prudery Leonardo II Star Voter Careful Grey Lag Exodus Step Lightly Ilelieve Idle Hour Nancy Lee Oriole General J M Gomez GomezHildur Hildur Crocus Kirklevington Plnrihns Dartmoor Miss Muffins Our Flag Mulciber TenLee Knobble Idle Dell Sporting Rlood Dimmesdale Kroomspun Smoke Screen Horse Horselion lion llomme Frigate Scrapls Moody Touch Me Not Ry Jiminy Quecreek The Ilohemian llaby Grand Sailing II Normal Rrigadier General Intrigante Dry Moon Muttikins Caligula Dark Horse Pahaska St Michael Rlack Servant Jeg Advocate Ararat Dernier Sou Well finder Chateau Thierry Tamarisk Ilarmoniqiie Horse Wt WtTen Ten buttons 107 107Jacobina Jacobina 101 101Ranksia Ranksia 100 100Hoiiyhnhnm Hoiiyhnhnm 1QIS 1QISKnight Knight of the Heather 100 100Charity Charity 100 100Cimarron Cimarron 10 10Sedgefield Sedgefield 10 10Honey Honey Cell 101 101Halu Halu 105 105Rockland Rockland 105 105Summit Summit 105 105Registrar Registrar 105 105East East View 101 101Maidens Maidens Ballet 103 103General General Menocal 103 103Wapiti Wapiti 103 103PIack PIack Knight 103 103Hilly Hilly McLaughlin 102 102Carefree Carefree 102 102Playfellow Playfellow 10 10Fright Fright 11 11Squa Squa w Man 102 102Santa Santa Clans 100 100Rodanzky Rodanzky t 100 100Ileruiont Ileruiont 100 100Fallacy Fallacy 100
