Re: Kela's BC Trip (535 Views)
Posted by:
jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: December 11, 2004 08:00PM
Michael,
Certainly wouldn't call you an idiot. It is just that after watching the replay, I don't see the slow start. But different people can see the same replay and view things differently. I just don't want an adjustment in the figure for slow starts - my preference. I just think a notation to denote what happened and allow the handicapper to decide how much weight to put into the slow start.
I will give you an example, albeit an obvious bad start and not a subtle one. Do you remember the Preakness with Silver Charm Free House, Captain Bodgett and Touch Gold. One of my more frustrating TC races ever. I loved Touch Gold and he was 5 or 6 to 1. The gates opened, he dropped on his nose and spotted the field 10 lengths. Actually moved to within a quarter length in the stretch and flattened out slightly, getting beat about 1 length (from memory). I didn't need a figure adjustment to know how much the best he was. Neither did anybody who watched the race. The only question in the Belmont (which wound up causing me to get off him), was whether the huge race in the Preakness might have taken too much out of the horse.
Anyway, I digress. This slow start brought back painful memories from that year's Triple Crown. The point is that a notation is enough.