As I'm new to TG and playing catch-up, my apologies if this has been covered over the years.

Has anyone analyzed Beyer versus TG...i.e. set up a scale (like fahrenheit versus celsius)? My quick analysis of some horses shows the following rough scale relationship (Beyer on left obviously...tg on right):

110+ = -3 to 3
100-109 = 0 to 5 (seen -1.5 though)
90-99 = 3 to 10
80-89 = 7 to 10 (limited data due to doing this quickly)

I would imagine one could simply pair up thousands of actual data sets and make the above ranges more accurate where each range represents say 2 or 3 standard deviations (obviously outliers will always exist).

Curious if this has been done. Then I guess the question has to be asked, does this mean anything? can it be used to handicap? maybe you feel you can predict the next Beyer figure better than you can predict the next tg figure...

Appreciate your thoughts...also I got Beyer's latest book (about his speed numbers...) - will read it all, but if you have any specific pages/chapters that you believe are 'best' please let me know.

George



George Mann