Re: To JB - Number Stephen Foster (685 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: June 21, 2007 04:36PM
This issue also arises with weight, and without going into detail can affect the figures of other horses in the race. But the effects are not large, and I want to point out that the way Beyer does it overall, a) despite occasionally making some significant errors (like in the Oaks and Black Eyed Susan), and b) depite the relatively small issues described here, is pragmatic, and almost never makes MAJOR errors. The guys a mile north of here, who are completely dogmatic and process oriented, make them all the time.
On a related point-- I had a discussion with some people here once about whether Beyer uses pars (which he said at the Expo, sitting right next to me, that he did not). From the opening paragraph of the cover story of Thursday's DRF, by Dave Litfin: "The Beyer Speed Figure pars for second-level allowance races and $50,000 claimers are virtually identical..."