Re: Pucker Up (RotW) Turf Talk (433 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: September 15, 2007 04:36PM
Barry, Barry, Barry.
I've also won many of the top grass races in this country, INCLUDING the BC Mile, twice, and I've used my data to do it. As you may or may not recall (or in fact may not even know), you were only able to buy Prized because the previous owner backed out of a verbal committment to sell us the horse the day before that maiden race, regardless of the result. I told my client to get it in writing...
Which is not to say you haven't done better than most, you have. But as I have demonstrated 76 times to date, you can use Thoro-Graph figures to find and manage stake horses, dirt and grass.
As far as I know you use Ragozin, and you are right that TimeForm makes better figures than that operation, dirt or turf. You have not as far as I know made any serious attempt to see whether our grass numbers hold up. We do them (and dirt figures) entirely differently than Ragozin does, and there is absolutely no comparison. I think you will also find that the European figures we publish are the most accurate available-- IF YOU ACTUALLY DO THE WORK TO FIND OUT.