Re: HAFTA ASK JERRY CAN'T ASK FRIEDMAN! (572 Views)
Posted by:
SoCalMan2 (IP Logged)
Date: March 08, 2006 06:42AM
Dear Miff,
JB and LF can answer better than me, but I think they both would agree that runups affect the final time. Just imagine a race where one horse could have a running start and the other had to start from a standstill......the horse with the running start would gain a huge advantage from the different starts. The final time needs to be adjusted to reflect that -- and I think both LF and JB adjust final times so that varying runups over the course of the day are taken into account when they are making a variant and assigning figures. To me, that means that if runups affect the final time, they must affect the fractions. I would agree that the first fraction is affected most and the later fractions less so, but I do think this information could be very relevant in assessing what type of fractions First Samurai ran. On the other hand, to be honest, I think all of the discussion about what the fractions were or were not in that race are completely irrelevant to assessing the efforts of the contestants, so you can take what I write with a grain of salt.
Best,
SCM2