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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
I don't think they are whack - but the scale they are on is an aboslute runaway.
Ferdinand ran a 7 when he won the Ky Derby.
Alysheba ran a 6 and Sunday Silence ran a 6.25
By comparison ... Desert Party was 14th beaten 21.75 lengths behind Mine That Bird in last years Derby - and ran a 7.50
Recapturetheglory was 5th beaten 12 lengths in '08 and ran a 1.75. Anak Nakal was 7th beaten 15 lengths and ran a 4
Z Fortune was 10th beaten 19.5 lengths and got a 6.
Horses have become faster on the ragozin sheets - but not nearly as sharply.
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This article I found said they have lowered about 2 points in 10 years. I don't know if you can extrapolate that straight back say 35 years, but if you could, that would be a 7 point shift since the mid-70s. Seems pretty big!
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/sta...-explained.pdf