Re: "Faster than they used to be" (560 Views)
Posted by:
twoshoes (IP Logged)
Date: November 16, 2004 02:40PM
<As for not using the product if you thought he was wrong about this, I am not sure it is relevant.>
Jim - You're welcome. All kidding aside, it's clear you're passionate about these things and that's a good thing. As to your comment above - I do think it's relevant. The same methodology that has horses getting faster is used to make these figures every day and I tend to trust it based on my experience. From Are Horses Getting Faster - "The best way to compare horses from generation to generation is through using accurate performance figures, since their whole purpose is to compare horses which run on different days, over different tracks. The one caveat is this: you can’t do it with figures that use claiming pars that anchor the data base in place by ASSUMING that the breed does not improve over time. That becomes a self fulfilling prophecy by definition—if you decide the claimers can’t improve (particularly ridiculous given the move-up trainers), the figures for the stake horses can only improve if they get better RELATIVE to the claimers." That makes sense to me and I 'll leave my contribution to this string at that.
Mark