The compressing of the weights is what makes the classier horses come to the fore as much as anything I think. Realistically nothing with a chance gets into the race off less than 10 stone 7 maybe and they have to expose themselves to some degree to get in. This isn’t one of the run of the mill sneak one in at the bottom handicaps. Its basically a limited handicap in effect and the smaller the weight gap from top to bottom, the greater the chance those at the top outclass them. If you run a Grade 2 and Grade 1 horses get penalties, you still back the Grade 1 horses don’t you? This isn’t that dissimilar
