Re: how hammered was the fig maker when he was doling out numbers for Jan 21 at Anita (1010 Views)
Posted by:
mjellish (IP Logged)
Date: February 15, 2018 09:29AM
I don’t know who you are, but i have a fairly straightforward question for you. If you are using final times to compare horses, why use figures at all?
I get what you are asking and its a fair question. But there are a lot of assumptions in your argument that are incorrect. For one, do you assume the teletimer never malfunctions? If you are a student of this game or have tried to make your own figures you would know they malfunction a lot more often than you would think, especially in grass races (I defy anyone to try to make sense of the grass races at gulfstream or saratoga using final times). Or what about varients changing in the middle of the day based on wind, tide, rain, heat or track maintenance?
So again, if you are going to use final times to compare horses why use figures at all?