I'm so glad you asked.

On Feb 10th (NOT Gotham day), the wind picked up tremendously, and changed direction, during the 8th race, the Whirlaway. Whether that was the reason or not, you had to add (3 points, equivalent to 10 Beyer points) compared to the previous race. If you look at the TG sheets below you will see why I say obviously-- I wouldn't have needed wind info or any reason to go with the variant I used, it was obvious, as you can see from looking at the first 3 finishers.

On March 10th the track was changing speed during the middle of the card, but this time the wind was pretty steady (though pretty strong). But by the time it came to the last two races-- both routes-- it had setlled into one speed. Again, if you look at the sheets below, you will see there was no doubt about how to handle it.

Beyer originally got the Whirlaway wrong, and corrected it later. Ragozin got it wrong, and didn't-- he is stuck, because he is invested in the ridiculous concept of the track not changing speed (see "Changing Track Speeds" in the Archives on this site). Don't know what Ragozin did with the Gotham, but one of the problems with making mistakes in this busines is that they compound themselves-- you make the Gotham figures (in part) using the Whirlaway figures.



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/2007 08:33PM by TGJB.