Stradbroke Handicap favourite All Silent has received the weight trainer Grahame Begg expected, but more than he had hoped for, in the Brisbane feature. All Silent was given 54.5 kilograms for the June 6 event when weights were released yesterday, with Apache Cat topweight on 60kg.All Silent carried 54.5kg in the Doncaster Handicap after weights were forced up half a kilo."It's what I expected but I thought he might drop a kilo," Begg said. "He didn't win the Doncaster and he didn

Stradbroke Handicap favourite All Silent has received the weight trainer Grahame Begg expected, but more than he had hoped for, in the Brisbane feature. All Silent was given 54.5 kilograms for the June 6 event when weights were released yesterday, with Apache Cat topweight on 60kg.

All Silent carried 54.5kg in the Doncaster Handicap after weights were forced up half a kilo.

"It's what I expected but I thought he might drop a kilo," Begg said. "He didn't win the Doncaster and he didn't win the All Aged."

All Silent's Sydney autumn campaign was thwarted by rain-affected tracks and he finished fourth in the George Ryder Stakes and 10th in the Doncaster, starting favourite in both. All Silent will run in the Doomben 10,000 two weeks earlier. If he wins the 1350-metre event All Silent could carry even more in the Stradbroke.

"It doesn't happen anywhere else in Australia that the winner of a weight-for-age race can get a penalty in a handicap," Begg said. "It is astonishing."

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