Re: Ghostzapper (436 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: September 12, 2004 01:13PM
The Iselin figure was the best we've given out, and renews my interest in adding 5 points to the base-- but I think I'm going to wait to see what comes out of this new demand for detention barns, etc.
We get info regarding between which races the track is watered at most major tracks (and other work done on it), only occasionally at how many minutes to post. All that stuff is a clue as you try to put together the puzzle, but quantifying things comes down to using the figure histories of the horses.
Certainly watering the track can speed it up, especially at a very sandy track like Belmont, but there are a lot of variables like moisture content pre-watering, which in turn can be a function of how much water they have already put in it and humidity, and evaporating factors like sun and wind, and harrowing.
TGJB