What does a ''handicap'' race mean in horse racing?
Correct answer: To equalize the chances of the competitors
Lorraine
Red Rum won the English Grand National three times, what a fantastic horse
mitch
River, Phar Lap died of arsenic poisoning at a farm outside San Francisco in 1932. It is not known if the poisoning was deliberate (rumours had it down to a syndicate of American gangsters who would have lost heavily if the horse continued to win in America as he had in Australia. ) It certainly wouldn't have been the Australian racing commission- the horse was making them money even in the depths of a depression.