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Old 01-17-2009, 11:48 AM
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have any good horses won this race, say in the last ten years, did they prove themselves as grade 2 horses over time? You know that races are pre-graded so looking at todays field and commenting on the grade is useless.
If a great horse wins a non-graded stakes early on in his career or first off the layoff, does that mean the race is has improved? This is a prep race, a stepping-stone race, and a restricted one (fillies, 3yos) at that. Proverbially, a camel is a horse put together by committee and our race grading process is cobbled together in a similar fashion.
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