Two things about your post:

1) Thank's to you for bringing this up. Months ago I posted here about the bogus figures of High Limit, only to be heckled and ridiculed for claiming TG screwed up his figures beyond belief.

2) There's no point asking about this, because all Brown will say is that his figures for High Limit, especially the LA Derby, are "in line with the rest of the day", and therefore, "right" (as if a whole day's assessment can never be screwed up either).

Given how High Limit hasn't won any kind of a race in 7 months now, it's further evidence that traditional barometers of evaluating a racehorse's ability, like results on the track, are essentially irrelevant to TG (so unable was High Limit to win on the dirt that Frankel did what all trainers before him do when they face that dilemma: throw them on the grass & see if they can win on that surface).

All that matters to TG are their figures they arbitrarily assign (which is crazily exemplified in their BG sheets archive where a horse that ran 10th in the Sprint got a better figure than many of those that crushed him on the track). One thing I learned is that TG rarely ever thinks it's figures are wrong or mistaken. In fact, Jerry Brown routinely claims how "right" his figures are and how "wrong" others (Ragozin, Beyer, etc.) are.

Here's a challenge to Thorograph for 2006. If Thorograph figures are so "right" and "accurate", test them publicly. Every week TG gives the "Race of the Week" sheets away for free. Let TG start with a mythical bankroll of whatever amount and make ONE SINGLE WIN BET ONLY on the Race of the Week (after all, if they're so "right" and "accurate" as opposed to others, there should be no need to hedge, right?). Since the information for their "Race of the Week" is given away for free anyway, it's an ideal vehicle for them to test the quality of their figures in relation to TG's usefulness to paying customers. Let's see where stands that mythical bankroll come January 2007.











M3