JB,

I can't proceed until you clarify a few things:

You wrote: "Depending on how you look at it, we either never update speed charts, or do so every day."

Are you saying you keep a running (constantly updated) average of the figures you give out at various class levels for each distance at each track? If not, please tell me what you are saying.

" But if the evidence seemed pretty solid, I would definitely go 3/4.5/3."

Please define "solid" as best you can. If the second race had a seven-horse field, and three horses obviously Xed, and the winner obviously freaked, can the evidence be "solid"?

"I understand how the Ragozin operation makes figures, and judging by Friedman's post, better than he does."

This sentence is so awkward that I want to know if it has been edited. It looks like one of those Blockbuster movies where they take out all the good parts.