Fly So Free Gets Highweight
Fly So Free, a colt who rebounded from injury to win two important stakes, and the filly Meadow Star, winner of all seven of her 1990 starts, are the two highweights in The Jockey Club’s Experimental Free Handicap.
Fly So Free was given 126 pounds among 106 colts or geldings weighted by a committee of three racing secretaries. Best Pal was next at 125.
Meadow Star, at 123, had a clear edge of four pounds on the list of 69 fillies who were weighted.
The Experimental Handicap, released today, is not an actual race, but an annual ranking by weight of the relative merits of the best of the previous year’s 2-year-old crop.
Fly So Free, owned by Thomas Valando, won four of six starts. Best Pal, who finished sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, closed out his 2-year-old season with a victory in the one-mile Hollywood Futurity. It was his sixth win in eight starts.
Carl Icahn’s Meadow Star won a maiden race June 13 at Belmont, then won six graded stakes, including the Breeders’ Cup Juveniles Fillies.
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