THE HANDICAPPERS JOB
A Thankless Task - The following commeoit by the racing contributor to the London Eveining Standard applies to many New Zeaiand as well as English trainers : — "I know of no profession where the wish is more often father to the thouglit than in the trainers' profession, and it has often struck me that they can "kid" " themselves into believing anything. There is one famous trainer who really believes his 'horses are invariably : badly handicapped. His idea it that the handicappers have a' definite grudge against him, and are out to stop him winning any " races. ' "Only the other day he complained hitterly to me of the way one of his horses had been handicapped when beaten by a head. The handicap was a positive disgrace, he told me. I ventured to point out that, as the animal had been beaten by a head, there could not have been much the matter with the handicappers' work, but he could not see it in that light at all. I suppose if the horse had had lOlbs. less and won by four Jengths it would have been a splendid handicap."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 5, 21 January 1937, Page 10
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