Re: Beyer (371 Views)
Date: March 02, 2005 04:02PM
>But those of us paying attention can make informed decisions, form opinions, and post them, based on the circumstantial evidence of very sophisticated data.<
The problem is that there has been a tendency to accuse virtually everyone that has been successful at improving horses and winning a lot of races as doing something illegal without due consideration to the "certainty" that some trainers, vets, and owners are more talented and have resources that increase the probability of success while doing legal things.
I'm not saying you are making accusations like that.
However, the general discussion feels like anyone that is doing very well is drugging their horses and everytime they lose it's because it was "drugs off".
I know I repeat myself way too often around here, but what's the problem with ackowledging that the problem exists without naming names. At least, if a name is mentioned, we should post specific horses and races for discussion so counter points of view on what could account for the performance can be presented.
That way, we aren't dragging people's names through the mud simply because of incompetent handicapping, suspect information, and misunderstandings of horse performace and improvement cycles.