Re: Where's the outrage??? (class) (965 Views)
Posted by:
ajkreider (IP Logged)
Date: June 24, 2017 09:42AM
I've always thought that "class" was a proxy for good speed figures, from a time when there weren't good speed figures. A horse that places in G1s will be faster than one that places in allowance races, because the former is facing faster company (on average).
But good speed figures make that kind of analysis mostly irrelevant. I say "mostly" because a horse running back to a typical number in a stakes race validates those numbers (in my mind, at least) to a greater degree than running back to a number in an allowance.