fastest handicap meaning

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potsy

Rambler
Location
My Armchair
Are horse races not called Handicaps any more then?

Sounds like nonsense to me.
 

Dogtrousers

Kilometre nibbler
Are horse races not called Handicaps any more then?

Sounds like nonsense to me.
It is nonsense. There was never such a thing as "the disability act" - maybe the Disability Discrimination Act? (now repealed) which made illegal (so I suppose you could say "banned") discrimination against people on the basis of their disabilities. But we do not have an "Institut Anglais" that "bans" words.
 

Smokin Joe

Legendary Member
Handicap awards are the preserve of the rookie riders (No offence to Jamma). In the early days your times come down very quickly, several minutes at a time. Once you've reached a certain level improvements tend to be in seconds and the chance of bagging a handicap award are fairly slim.

I remember a near riot at the end of a 25 mile TT many years ago when three members of a club who only did road races entered the event when they had a free weekend. They were all first cats but with no TT history they got beginners handicaps and swept the board, taking all three places by something like twenty minutes over the next man. It did not go down well.
 
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jamma

Über Member
Location
stockton on tees
Now i know what the other time was for above my actual time is for
 
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