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Originally Posted by postpicker
Which is why I bring it up. Anyone that uses Beyer figs to compare who is the better horse is a moron. Each race is unique, no two races are run the same.
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Final time figures - like Beyer figures - simply tell you how fast the race was run.
To suggest being able to run fast isn't important is laughable. And if someone can't analytically factor the circumstances of a race with how fast a horse ran ... they're simply not a very good handicapper.
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Originally Posted by postpicker
To use Beyer figs as any type of comparision between horses, especially great horses, is a disservice to the horse.
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Disservice to a horse? Just use their record and accomplishment on track?
That is the kind of stupidity that gets Favorite Trick voted horse of the year over Skip Away.
It's the same kind of stupidity that made people insist Stardom Bound was way better than Rachel Alexandra.
It's the same kind of stupidity that made bettors bet Justwhistledixie to favortisim over Rachel Alexandra in the Kentucky Oaks future pool in late March.
Here I am saying Rachel Alexandra is the best 3yo in the country - male or female - back in Mid Feb. after she won the ungraded Martha Washington Stakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P007YXgCvE
You have a filly who was 3-for-6 as a 2yo, with just one stakes win - and just won a 50K stake against bums in her 3yo debut...
Are you supposed to pretend that she's somehow not as good as Stardom Bound .. because Stardom Bound is a champion who won 5 straight Grade 1 stake races? Like that means anything at all.
Rachel Alexandra's Golden Rod was unarguably the best two turn route race by a 2yo last year - male or female.
In the Martha Washington, she ran 3.5 lengths faster than Eight Belles did when EB won that race by a pole the prior year. AND .. unlike Eight Belles, Rachel Alexandra came into that race off of a layoff for a trainer who's not a very good layoff trainer.
But yeah, it's a disservice to Stardom Bound and her amusing 5 straight Grade 1 wins and championship .. to say that she's inferior to a horse (RA) who is unquestionably open lengths better than Eight Belles.
Think this one through a little bit. By your half baked theory .. Stardom Bound and her 5 straight Grade 1's and championship in 7 lifetime races drowned Rachel Alexandra's much more modest resume through her first 7 races.