As I said in my original post, we do NOT use a straight ratio-- we actually use less. What we use (which Ragozin was using before me) was based on working with the data, and seeing how tight the figures held up-- as I have said many times it's not perfectly accurate because they won't give us the weights of the horses.

Once a racehorse is fit, according to every trainer I've ever worked with, weight = strength-- losing weight is a bad thing. Don't know squat about human runners, but with horses there is a big difference between body weight and weight carried-- again, it would be great (and add a lot to handicapping) if they would weigh the damn horses and publish the information.



TGJB