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SENIOR flat handicapper Garry O’Gorman has defended the practice of adjusting the majority of flat ratings at the end of the turf season. The policy, which aims to negate ‘ratings inflation’ earlier in the year, has come in for criticism following confusion caused by the handicap marks of recent all-weather winners.
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Title: Handicapper defends ratings policy
“It may appear anomalous that a horse who has won or placed early in November subsequently runs off a lower mark under its revised rating but it is competing against horses who have also been revised"
https://www.theirishfield.ie/handicapper-defends-ratings-policy-330359
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