[Tim Y]

I was talking with Robert Geller tonight about the "class structure" in Hong Kong. He said that a handicapping committee, NOT the connections looking at a condition book, rank the horses in classes from 1 to 5 or 6?

Whenever any horse does very well at one level or when they drop off competitively, they more up or down respectively: so it is COMPETITIVE status that ranks as their class level NOT some man made thing.

ONE side effect of this is that the same horses are racing against one another at a specific level over and over.