[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Bottom line....the fig is meaningless. Sailor's Cap is a good horse, probably the leading US 3YO turf horse right now, but quantifying that race considering the conditions is fruitless.

I don't know why this is hard for people to understand.

Here's the point; why it's not fruitless. No matter what your method of evaluation, this race needs to come up huge for SC. He ran an incredible race. To not be able to capture it in terms of figures, for whatever reason, is a huge flaw in the system (if the case is such).