Re: Frankel Quotes (343 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: June 02, 2005 07:21PM
CH-- Interesting about the 4 1/4-- again, it was 3 inches when Najran ran 1:32:1 just a couple of years ago-- an isolated incedent due to miscommunication, they were mostly going with around 3 1/2.
Yeah, the moisture content becomes yet another variable, especially since it is adjusted artificially. When you sit down and look at all the variables you can see there are an awful lot of permutations. Bottom line, as I quoted Dr. Mick Peterson saying in "Changing Track Speeds", the way we do it (seeing how fast horses run over it), is the most accurate way to measure track "speed".
In practice, I don't have data on how much water is being added (and sometimes whether or when), let alone what's coming down in rain, or humidity. Tough question to address, although Porcelli was doing moisture content studies, and I suspect others are as well. It wouldn't hurt any if we had them, but we still wouldn't have them for 30 years ago, and would be looking at apples/oranges because of the soil content.
TGJB