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- Updated: September 22, 2016
Alterations to the Weight For Age Scale are to be introduced from 2017 “in the interests of fairness and competitiveness”, the European Pattern Committee has announced.
The purpose of the scale is to give an allowance to younger horses, usually three-year-olds, to enable them to compete equally with their older counterparts.
It should not therefore unfairly advantage any particular age group, but should instead allow for a broadly equivalent strike-rate for both three-year-olds and for older horses when competing together.
A thorough and robust, year-long analysis of European race results has been undertaken of runners over six years showing that, under the existing scale, three-year-olds have a higher strike-rate than older horses, which is particularly noticeable from July onwards, and over …
