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If there is a time of year for any horse, now is the time for the topweight. It is the time that the tracks are at their truest, and the best of the crops are away resting or trying to win in Western Australia.
The topweight in a handicap is immediately at a disadvantage. This is true of every handicap ever run, regardless of the comment often made about a topweight that it is we, in or "well handicapped".
If it is giving away weight it is, first and foremost, at a disadvantage. The next step the punter must undertake is to establish the extent of the disadvantage, by asking the following question: