- Source: Weight for Age
Weight for Age (WFA) is a term in thoroughbred horse racing which is one of the conditions for a race.
History
The principle of WFA was developed by Admiral Rous, a handicapper with the English Jockey Club. Rous experimented with weights until he arrived at a relationship between age and maturity, expressed in terms of weight. His original scale has undergone only minor alterations since his work in the 1860s.
Description
Weight for age means that a horse will carry a set weight in accordance with the Weight for Age Scale. This weight varies depending on the horse's age, its sex, the race distance and the month of the year. Weight for age races are usually Group 1 races, races of the highest quality. It is a form of handicapping for horse racing, but within the horse racing industry is not referred to as handicap, which is reserved for more general handicapping.
WFA is a method of trying to equal out the physical progress which the average thoroughbred racehorse makes as it matures. The thoroughbred matures extremely quickly compared to the human being. By the age of two the horse has achieved 95% of its mature height and weight, and by the end of its third year it will be fully mature. To allow for this variation in maturity in the context of racing, it is necessary to express it as a function of the weight a horse will carry in a race. It is also necessary to take into account the race distance because stamina comes with maturity, and younger horses are at a greater disadvantage the farther they have to run. If no allowance was made, a mature older horse would always beat a younger one.
Top WFA races
= Australia
=Australian Cup
The BMW Stakes
Cox Plate
The Everest
Queen Elizabeth Stakes (ATC)
Queen's Cup in its early days (later changed to Group 3)
= France
=Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
= Ireland
=Irish Champion Stakes
Irish St. Leger
= Japan
=Japan Cup
= New Zealand
=New Zealand International Stakes
Spring Classic (formerly the Kelt Capital Stakes)
= South Africa
=King's Plate
Horse Chestnut Stakes
Metropolitan Stakes
Premier's Champion Challenge
Paddock Stakes
Majorca Stakes
Champions Cup
Gold Challenge
= United Kingdom
=Diamond Jubilee Stakes
Eclipse Stakes
July Cup
Sussex Stakes
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
International Stakes
Nunthorpe Stakes
Sprint Cup
Queen Elizabeth II Stakes
Champion Stakes
= United States
=Breeders' Cup Classic
Breeders' Cup Turf
Breeders' Cup Mile
Breeders' Cup Sprint
Jockey Club Gold Cup
Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes
= Uruguay
=Gran Premio José Pedro Ramírez
Gran Premio Pedro Piñeyrúa
Gran Premio Ciudad de Montevideo
Sources
Australian Rules of Racing.
Weight for Age Advice
U.S. Scale of Weights from About.com
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