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Official ratings of Irish jumpers running in UK

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  • July 31, 2008 at 09:34 #8538
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    Since there are regularly a number of Irish runners raiding Scottish and Irish meetings I’ve noticed an anomaly between official handicap ratings of Irish horses and their UK ratings. Their UK marks are approximately a stone higher than their Irish mark. Noticed this with Spa Wells at Perth on Tuesday evening, apparently badly weighted but on investigation seemed to have a decent chance and duly obliged.

    Does anyone know if the UK mark for Irish runners is just Irish mark plus a figure(maybe 14lbs), or does the UK handicapper responsible for each group of horses assess all horses himself?

    Rob

    July 31, 2008 at 09:44 #175501
    Marcus Weedon
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    All Irish races are assessed by the GB jumps handicapping team and each horse entered is effectively given a ‘GB’ mark, which has no direct relationship to its Irish mark.

    The Irish handicappers and GB handicappers work on different scales and in a different way.

    July 31, 2008 at 10:06 #175503
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    ………………their wonders to perform?

    Colin

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