Re: B.C. Review (883 Views)
Posted by:
TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: October 30, 2002 04:37PM
1- In regard to your overall position: the 2 year old fillies who can run that fast are probably 1 in 10,000. Here's what we'll do-- next time a horse runs really fast, I'll take that one to run back to the number, and you take another horse who hasn't run that fast to do so, and we'll bet. As much as you want.
2- As I have indicated in earlier posts, there were lots of reasons even before this start to know that Ragozin got the 9/15 number wrong (like, it's completely ridiculous on the face of it that she would get 6 points WORSE for winning a G1 by 13 lengths than she got for winning a maiden race by 1-- they are saying that just to match her first out figure she would have to have won the stake by 23 lengths), and it was only by taking a dogmatic approach to the day-- tieing the variants together despite sealing and unsealing the track during racing, and torrential rains after the filly race and during the 2yo colt race-- that anyone could come up with that preposturous number (which I predicted in advance they would do).
Marc, try this-- the number in question was the filly's second. Take the sheet and cover up the last two numbers, and ask yourself what you think she would have gone on to do. Then do it with ours.
Bottom line, I'm not going to change your mind. But I'm doing this to encourage those with open minds to look and compare on an ongoing basis
TGJB