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Here and There on the Turf Handicap Racing of Last LastYear Year Analysis of Its Principal PrincipalFeatures Features Exterminators Remarkable RemarkableFeats Feats It is found by a study of 156 of the han ¬ dicaps on the flat run last year that forty five were won by the topweights sixteen by the lightest weighted horse and in fifteen the top weighted horse finished last This calcu ¬ lation of how the races were decided leaves ninetyfour that went to horses that were handicapped Eomewhere between the top and the lowest weight weightOf Of course these calculations take in the vari ¬ ous distances and the various age divisions but they tend to show that the horses in the middle weight division are more successful in handicaps than any other of the weights This has been proved by a study of the handicaps in Australia and it was made the subject of some interesting discussions An effort has been made to in a measure apply the same calculations to the handicap racing on this continent continentIt It was Motor Cop that carried the greatest weight to victory when he won with 143 pounds up but it was over the five and j half furlongs distance at Tijuana and not a race calculated to be an adequate test of any ¬ thing but sprinting speed As usual Extermi ¬ nator stood alone when it came to carrying high weights over long distances He reached his highest when he carried 138 pounds to victory in the mile and a quarter of the Ken ¬ tucky handicap He won the Brooklyn Handi ¬ cap at a mile and an eighth under 135 pounds and he carried 133 pounds to victory in both the mile and an eighth of the Clark Handi ¬ cap and the mile and a sixteenth of the Pim lico Spring Handicap In the Harford Handi ¬ cap at threequarters he won under 132 pounds and he had a like impost when he won the Toronto Autumn Cup at a mile and a quarter quarterExterminator Exterminator failed under the 140 pounds he was required to take up in Latonias Inde ¬ pendence Handicap at a mile and a half and near the end of the season his hard campaign ¬ ing under excessive weights was beginning to tell on him He was not himself through the fall campaign in Maryland and it was apparent in his races at Pimlico PimlicoKaiSang KaiSang the threeyearold son of The Finn won the Jerome Handicap at a mile under 133 pounds and on various other occasions proved himself a remarkable weight carrier carrierGrey Grey Lag has a front place among the weight carriers of 1922 He won the Empire City Handicap at a mile and an eighth under 132 pounds as well as the Saratoga Handi ¬ cap at a mile and a quarter under 130 and the Queens County Handicap at a mile under 127 pounds poundsMajor Major Thomas C McDowells good mare Dis ¬ tinction curried 132 pounds to victory but it was only at three quarters when she won the Quickstep Handicap HandicapMad Mad Hatters two notable weight carrying victories were in the Champlain Handicap at a mile and an eighth under 130 pounds and the Metropolitan Handicap at a mile when carrying 129 pounds poundsBoniface Boniface was the winner of the Windsor Hotel Handicap at a mfle and an eighth under 128 pounds while Be Frank won a mile and an eighth handicap at Tijuana under 130 pounds poundsThese These comprise the notable weight carrying winners of the year in the handicaps Of course in each of these performances the vic ¬ tors were generally giving away great lumps of weight as well as taking up excessive im ¬ posts postsThis This will show that sixteen handicaps were won by these horses under weights that ranged from 127 to 143 pounds Of the sixteen Ex ¬ terminator won six at weights ranging from 132 to 138 pounds Grey Lag was winner of three Mad Hatter two and one each went to Motor Cop Boniface KaiSang Be Frank and Distinction That will show how Mr Kil ¬ mers wonderful old gelding stood out as the handicap horse of the year and it was a good year yearAnother Another interesting revelation of the handi ¬ caps is the number of races over different distances The two instances most frequently run in handicaps were at threequarters and a mile and a sixteenth There were thirty two at each of these routes The mile and an eighth wasnt far behind with twentysix races over that distance and there were twenty one handicaps at a mile mileSeventeen Seventeen races were at a mile and a quar ¬ ter seven at five and a half furlongs six at a mile and seventy yards five at a mile and threesixteenths three at two miles and t quarter two each at a mile and a half five eighths and seveneighths and one at a mile and fivesixteenths It must be remembered that these are just the handicaps that are under discussion and it shows an excellent percentage of longdistance races when it is considered that in the calculation many win ¬ ter offerings are included includedThis This will show that of 156 handicaps there were 113 at distances of a mile or more moreRather Rather a creditable showing for the year and it speaks well for the turf when these various handicaps take in those that were of ¬ fered for twoyearolds as well as other ages agesIt It is the handicap division that is the di ¬ vision made up of the best horses and when the races are made of distances worth while for this class the racing secretaries arc doing their full duty dutyWhen When the distances are kept up tc stardard it means that the horses will be up to stand ¬ ard and there is little to quarrel about in the handicaps that were offered during the 1921 racing season
