Good punters who do their own handicapping DO NOT use WFA scale in reference to handicap races. Don Scott for example.

Since I started using this approach and thru out the old outdated WFA approach, I have been winning more. If you adopted the same approach, you would too.

In the US, mares only get a 1.5kg advantage. The advantages mares and 3yos get in some parts of the year are too much under the WFA scale. Especially over shorter distances like 1600m.

Consider this, a 5yo gelding of avg ability gets the same weight as Northerly in a WFA event. Is this fair? Not based on ability. So to use the WFA scale as a reference point is totally flawed from the start.

The metro was over 2600m. You may be right about the timing though. I remember he had a problem with his shoes. Prior to the cox plate, track reports said he was flying and we saw the result of this later.