Jerry,

You can defend your horses are getting faster theory until the cows come home. Your Najran example is old and isolated.Today, we know that most race tracks are scraping the surface on major race days making it produce fast raw times.Tracks are NOT slower today especially on big race days.

You failed to address my earlier comments that horses are NOT bigger and stronger than they were years ago, go check like I did.All agree that most other species are bigger, stronger, faster than years ago.We know about nutrition etc, but your ASSUMPTION that runners are generally bigger than they used to be, is wrong.

The fact remains that you are unable to justify or explain why so many average dirt performances come up in the negative territory on your product.I am not talking about high class runners throwing big time figs.

Between the "ugly" pairs and the inordinate number of negative figs awarded for "common" performances, it is difficult to have the same confidence in the figs, as in years past.

Like I stated previously, I believe that somewhere along the line, your personal opinions/prejudices have creapt into your figure making endeavors.This may explain why some figs are now close to ridiculous on occasion,imo.

Specifically,once again,NAME the runners who would "dust"Fager and Sec with all things equal, I would love to take you to task on those two specifically.Enough generalities without any proof and only your fairly isolated opinion on Horses Getting Faster.

Lastly, there is no argument from me that it is reasonable to think that horses(runners) are a couple of fifths faster in general but NOT 2 secs(10 lenghts) as you state.Don't go near Harness racing, I owned 20 of them and there are MANY reasons why they are 5 seconds+ faster than they used to be.



miff