Re: Are Racehorses Improving, Part One-- Track Speed (614 Views)
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TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: November 12, 2003 02:17PM
Once again, Michael, I'm not trying to prove that all tracks are slower-- I'm showing that conditions change, making using raw times for purposes of comparison impossible unless you know that circumstances were the same. This, by the way, is the idea behind making ratings in general-- we all can see (I hope) that grass times this Summer and Fall in California have been very fast, but does that mean all those horses got faster than they were last Winter and Spring?
More to follow in Part Two, but I don't know if I'll get to it today.
TGJB