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Originally Posted by Konk
Maybe grades should be assigned after the race is run. Be more timely and applicable to the games bettors.
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That's been discussed. Turf writer Gary West has been a proponent of that concept. But it doesn't seem fair to the connections pointing for races (especially 2+3yo stakes) to 'lose' quality of black type when there's no way to know how the foes are going to turn out medium/long term.
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07-02-2017, 08:28 AM
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