Mall wrote,

"It's how to respond to & deal with proof that a life's work was & is based on a premise that has been scientifically demonstrated to be false."

You have hit the ball out of the park with this one. When the Chilukki came up on this Board it originally began if I remember correctly when you posted regarding a device that would allow track crews to probe into the soil after the morning works and determine the firmness or lack thereof in the racetrack therefore being better able to determine track speed.

I was brand new to these Boards naive and green as grass. I pointed out how that wouldn't work when there were days such as when Chilukki broke her maiden because on that particular day the racing surface changed considerably three different times on one racing card. Beyer gave Chilukki a 109 figure, Ragozin/Friedman gave her a 6, Brown gave her a box. The box was probably more accurate because both Beyer and Ragozin based their ENTIRE CARDS on the results of that 4 1/2 furlong baby race.

More to the point though was the ensuing war of words that began where Friedman basically called me a liar, bozo, partisan and a toady sicko. He put a post up that I will never forget--We have tested these types of races on our track model 1000's of times. I couldn't help but picture an image of he and Jake holding plastic toy horses and racing each other around a makeshift racetrack on a card table in their offices. He then stated they verified their results with the 100's of races run at 4 1/2 furlongs at Churchill Downs. Let me tell you I'm from there and they RUN ABOUT 2-3 A YEAR.

At this point TGJB stepped in and put up a post that caused Friedman to not only TAKE THE FIFTH AND REFUSE TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT any longer but he then unleashed his attack dogs on this Board. Here came Alydar, Marc, Soup, Jerry JR. and numerous other GOONS specifically to try and destroy TGJB and Thorograph.

The point really became then, not who did the day correctly when Chilukki broke her maiden but how the otherside deals with challenges to their methodology.

The answer is quite simple, they don't because they can't.