Re: Sis City.... TG v Sheets (381 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: May 04, 2005 04:58PM
Bob-- if you want we can take a brief look at this in a couple of weeks when Derby stuff dies down. But in fact someone once did a study, and I'm pretty sure it was of the Epsom Derby, showing that the average time had improved in every decade. Might have been in the Scientific American article I quoted.
As for grass races in general-- paces are much slower, especially in Europe, and can affect final time-- that's why we have "S Pace" notations. Nevertheless, there were some unbelievably fast grass times last year-- I did a post in response to Frank raising the same issue right around the last BC. If you do a search you can probably find it.
I'm pretty sure Watchmaker does read this site, given some of what he has written. And he was at the Expo, where I talked about it.
TGJB