I received the following email:
Horse weights are confusing me
Example. Today Fri 17/01/20. Musselburgh 1.20 - Tabou Beach Boy
Weight is listed at 10.10. Previous weight when the horse was 1st 11.4. To
me this reads that the weight the horse is carrying is 8 pounds down today.
On the racing post card these same weights are given but in the write up
for the horse on the rp card. it says the weight is 8lb up today.
There are similar examples on other cards.
Your advice please.
When the RP says “it's weight is up 8 pound” it really meant it's official handicap mark is up 8 pounds”. When Tobou Beach Boy last won it was rated 102. Today it is rated 110. The reason it's carrying less weight today is that it's racing in a class 4 race today (last time was class 5), so it's running against better runners.
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