I went over the ground loss thing a little at the DRF Expo, not sure whether it made the DVD or not. Basically, the argument (as CH indicated) is usually that other things (better part of the track, clear sailing etc) can sometimes offset ground loss.

So what? If Beyer gives one horse a 90, and another an 80, but the first horse ran on the better part of the track, does he adjust the figures of the two horses? If a horse gets beat 10 lengths, but raced on a worse part of the track, do we not want to know how far he got beat?

You can adjust for all these things as much or as little as you want to. But in the end, you are better off knowing how far a horse travelled, and working from that.

I've done some stuff here about weight before at length. You can probably find a lot by using the search engine creatively, and we definitely did cover that in some depth at the Expo.



TGJB