Re: ROTW (502 Views)
Posted by:
Millennium3 (IP Logged)
Date: July 18, 2005 06:25PM
And this is my last one on this topic...
I made clear my point from that start was High Limit's "1"'s are bogus, especially the LA derby. That race this year was a poor group of racehorses, as evidenced by the fact that most or all of them have done little to nothing on the track in the four months since. Also, High Limit himself after the LA Derby has run pathetically, especially his last three, and has rung up four straight losses. I guess my thought was: blame the figure as erroneous, not the horse.
Moreover, like I said before, if you question the Bluegrass figs, that's tantamount to acknowledging the LA Derby figure is real suspect, since it was posted clearly here that the Bluegrass figs were based on High Limit repeating his "1" in the LA Derby. So how can you question one and not the other?
You're right about this: I know speed figures of any kind are determined a lot more subjectively than most admit. This discussion thread, with everybody weighing in as they have proves that beyond doubt. As such, the conclusions are fallible, i.e., any horse's given figure can be WRONG! Which, not so incidentally, has been my point all along. So I'll reiterate it, AGAIN:
High Limit is not as fast as TG sheets say he is. His fast race figures are wrong, and his efforts after Lousiana prove that: Couldn't find him with TWO pairs of binoculars at Churchill; off the board again at Pimlico; and that ugly and awful third place finish yesterday (passed in teh stretch by a horse that ran the day before, by the way). If this is the wotk of a horse firing figures of "1", then "1" doesn't mean what it used to, does it?
Then again, maybe Frankel's medical magic has just worn off.
M3