if you tie 12f and 10f #'s to 8f and 9f #'s, you are likely to come up with a database full of longer route #'s that are too fast. horses are bred more for speed than distance than they uesed to be, and are running short races much faster than they used to, but longer routes only a bit faster. most numbers i look at (both running times and other speed figures) confirm this. TGJB, your dogmatic approach to figure making, along with a conversation you had with a track superintendent is the only evidence you can give that today's horses are running longer races faster than they used to. go back and look at some of the times 'bid, easy goer, ap indy and a few of the others ran. unless you can give SPECIFIC REASONS why every single track in the country has gotten a lot slower, your route #'s are very hard for me to believe in relation to the route figs you gave out ten years ago.



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