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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: May 03, 2007 01:47PM
Surprisingly enough, someone on the other board called Friedman on the Bluegrass numbers, and more surprisingly he responded, which almost certainly means he didn't see my comments (above, this string), because he would have known not to stick his neck out. Here's what he said:
"The whole point of making a slow pace correction is to adjust what number the horse would have earned using the actual time of the race, to compensate for the unrealistic early slow fractions. Horses can only accelerate up to a point and there was certainly nothing the horses in the Bluegrass could have done in the last quarter of a mile to earn any kind of relevant figure using the final time".
Exactly. So here's the question-- how did you decide that 3 of the 7 horses that ran in the Bluegrass WOULD HAVE run big new lifetime tops?