Benchmark – Guides to Benchmark Handicapping

• Benchmark Assessments are not negotiable
• Benchmark Assessments Post Race
• Guide to Nominators
• Handicapping Guidelines
• Handicapping Penalties-Apprentice Allowances-Discretionary Allowances
• Lowering the race Benchmark at the release of weights
• Spreading or Raising of weights at acceptance time
• Understanding Benchmark Handicap Rating Penalties