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Originally Posted by Bravado2112
I suspect Beyer used an independent variant for the same reason Jerry Brown did at Thorograph and posted about yesterday:
don't have trackman work yet, but if the wind was as strong (24mph) as they reported on TV and in their faces leaving the Derby gate, it would slow down the time for that race significantly (they run through the stretch twice), and speed up the times for the one turn races significantly, especially for the ones longer than 6f. This is going to come up a very big figure-- On Beyer it would be about neg 2 TG, before adjusting for ground.
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It was very very windy and the wind could not have been beneficial on the other hand the track was kind of firm and I suspect extremely fast