Saddle-- If he knew before the race that horse had the ability to run "just" 112, he could have made a lot of money.

Yeah, it's funny how things that came up at the Expo keep coming up. Beyer took the position that if 2 horses with a solid history of running 80s come up as 95s, you should bring them to 80s. Friedman said you should give them the 95s, tie it to the rest of the day. Both seemed to forget their were other horses in the race. This is probably a function of using pars, where you go mostly by the winners, and it's wrong-- if the race is full of 80s that get 80s, you give the top two 95s, but if giving those two 95s means moving up the rest of the field 15 points as well you don't, regardless of the rest of the day.



TGJB