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Originally Posted by philcski
"Class handicapping" is a pretty broad category. Personally I think it's extremely important for some meets and utterly useless in others. For example, Keeneland has horses shipping in from all over the place, and also-rans from tougher meets generally run roughshod over top performers from weaker meets and get bet like it- defining which Turfway horses can compete at a big price is a big part of the puzzle. Other places, like Mountaineer or the Texas meets, where the population is pretty static, class means less and current form means much more.
And I am FAR FROM an English major.
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That pretty well sums it up for me, too. Nice summary.
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