Hansen, Union Rags tied at 126 atop Experimental

Hansen, last year's undefeated champion two-year-old male and winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, and Union Rags, who won the

Grade 1 Champagne Stakes

and finished second to Hansen in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, have

received the high weight assignment of 126 pounds on The Jockey Club's 2011

Experimental Free Handicap, released Thursday by The Jockey Club.

The filly division is headed by last year's champion two-year-old filly and

undefeated Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner, My Miss Aurelia, at

124 pounds.

All Experimental Free Handicap weight assignments, as well as past

performances for those horses, are available within the Publications and

Resources section of

jockeyclub.com.

The Jockey Club Experimental Free Handicap, published annually since 1935, is

a weight-based assessment of the previous year's leading two-year-olds, with the

weights compiled for a hypothetical race at 1 1/16 miles on dirt.

The weighting committee of racing secretaries was once again composed of Ben

Huffman of Churchill Downs and Keeneland, P.J. Campo of the New York Racing

Association and Thomas S. Robbins of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.

The committee weighted a total of 130 males and 94 fillies. Eligible for

weighting were all two-year-olds of 2011 that finished among the top four in

graded or listed stakes races run in the continental United States. Listed

stakes in 2011 were those with a value of $75,000 or more available to all

starters, and no restrictions other than age or sex.

Hansen, a son of Tapit, won all three of his starts last year

by a combined 25 1/2 lengths and earned $1,153,305. Owned by Dr. Kendall Hansen

and Sky Chai Racing, Hansen won the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Stakes

in addition to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He was bred in Kentucky by Dr.

Hansen.

Union Rags, by Dixie Union, won three of four starts last

year by a combined 14 1/4 lengths, including the Grade 2 Saratoga

Special, and posted earnings of $858,800. He was bred in Kentucky by Phyllis M. Wyeth and is owned by Chadds Ford Stable.

In the filly division, the 124 pounds assigned to My Miss Aurelia, by Smart

Strike, is one pound higher than the

standard impost for top Experimental fillies.

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, My Miss Aurelia

won all four of her starts, including the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes and the

Grade 1 Frizette

Stakes, by a combined total of 14 1/2 lengths. She is owned by Stonestreet

Stables and George Bolton and she earned $1,380,000 last year.

Among sires of Experimental horses, Indian Charlie leads the list of colts

and geldings with four representatives; Bluegrass Cat, City Zip, Giant's

Causeway, High Cotton, Kitten's Joy, Scat Daddy, Wildcat Heir and With

Distinction have three each.

Hard Spun, Kitten's Joy and Lion Heart head the fillies' list with four

representatives each. Scat Daddy and Songandaprayer have three each.

Combining the two lists, Kitten's Joy is the leading sire with seven,

followed by Indian Charlie, Lion Heart and Scat Daddy with six representatives

each.

Of the 224 juveniles weighted, 150 were bred in Kentucky, 33 in Florida,

seven in California and six in New York.