Sand,

I would not call the figure false but you must question the overall conditions in which it was earned.Without question, I saw a biased rail on BC day at CD. Don't know how TG saw it but Len Friedman at Rags said he did not see any rail bias after looking at his figs.I believe TG also uses figs/computer program to flag biases,I think there are other methods equally telling.

I have done lots of research on big figs and the conditions in which they were earned, i.e biases, pace/race shape/perfect trips,track conditions and patterns.While very inconclusive, I did see that many big figs were not repeated in different overall conditions from the prior race.Many fig users automatically call it bounce when a horse regresses but I think bounce is correct only some of time and a host of other reasons also cause figure regression.

If you honestly feel a horse only ran his eyeballs out because of conditions then you should subjectively downgrade the performance, not the figure.


Mike