Miff-- the argument is not about whether CD is faster on those days than it is on the other days that week, which I would have to look up for each year to see.

But you still don't grasp how the figures are made. When I first get the day, the whole thing has already been adjusted for a rough track speed based on the figure histories of the horses, similar to using pars (variants), but just as a starting point. I'm just correcting from there-- most of the time I only look at my corrections from that "par", and don't even pay attention to what the actual track speed is.

Point being-- we do the figures the same way, no matter whether the horses are GI or 5 claimers-- based on the histories of the horses. All the stuff you say about assigning figures based on preconceptions is totally wrong.