Re: little hints (593 Views)
Date: November 17, 2004 09:52AM
Chuckles,
>If you look at the times from 1973-2004 my feeling is they have become slower than the years 1962-1973. Why is that? Are horses suddenly getting slower or is the track changing?:<
The difference is a little less than 4/5 of a second. However, if you throw out a few extreme cases like Sunday Silence and Smarty Jones on very sloppy tracks (I don't have all the track conditions handy right now to do an appropriate comparison) the difference narrows by about 1/5. It narrows further if you don't arbitrarily start and end at the exact years that help make your case. (data mining)
I think there are really 2 issues here that keep getting mixed up as if they are black and white and they are "NOT".
1. Are horses getting faster?
2. Are they getting faster at the rate suggested by TG?