>Smarty tired, absolutely; collapsed, absolutely not.<

OK, we are probably debating language as opposed to what happened. :-)

On the point I was making prior....

If a speed handicapper does not incorporate certain negative aspects of horses' trips into their figures, they would have a tendency to build them into their track variant instead.

That would have the effect of overrating the speed figures of other horses in the race that had easier trips.

If you do that enough over a long period of time, it would tend to produce figures that were rising slowly over the long haul even though the horses were not improving.



Post Edited (06-10-04 15:45)