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Originally Posted by Cardus
Shouldn't the figure -- which as everyone should know is extremely difficult to compose given the lack of Polytrack experience to date -- be exclusively the product of the time of that race run at Keeneland on Saturday?
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If that was the case, and they didn't "cut the figure loose", the Blue Grass number would have come back in the low-to-mid 80's.
Because mistakes compound themselves in the figure making process, a man made speed figure will be cut loose in an instance like that, and numbers will be assigned that fall in line that fit with the previous numbers of the runners in the race.
Stream Cat, who's career top Beyer was an 88 coming into Saturday, ran 13 Beyer points faster than the Blue Grass on raw time. The Mott filly did so as well.