Jerry,

So as not to be accused of ignoring your questions again:

4) I don't know what they did with the variant for race 10. Friedman can address that. If they had the turf getting slower, then that would be interesting, now wouldn't it?

5) All I can say is that when I look at the probable ranges I assigned to the horses in Race 11 I had everyone running between a 7 and 12 -- most of them a 9 or worse -- except Bowman's Band. That put them all at 6 points or more below their top. BB was a huge question mark for me. I figured he'd bounce 2-5 points. He bounced 6. That kind of result doesn't make me want to tear up the variant.