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So soon after Khalid Abdullah passed, another of the biggest investors in world racing dies, and just before the Dubai World Cup Festival.
His contribution to racing will probably be overlooked by the wider media since the Latifa story, but it shouldn’t be denigrated.
Will Shadwell and Derrinstown aim to continue operations, as Juddmonte seems to be intending to?Chestnut, if you were explaining it to someone new to racing, and they equated it to athletics, they would quite rightly say male humans are faster/stronger than the females, whether it’s the 100 metres, the marathon or the shot putt. The stats prove it.
On that basis alone, a mares allowance would seem easier to justify.
But with horses, it becomes more complicated. Is a mare really at a physical disadvantage in this day and age, with modern nutrition?
Remember Black Caviar in the paddock at Royal Ascot? She dwarfed everything else there, male or female.
Okay, she was a freak. But overall, I’d be more comfortable with a 3 or 4 pound allowance over jumps, rather than 7.
