2/18 (OP) Southwest Stakes

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

The problem, IMO, with this is that it focuses too much on just the winner of the race.

The other horses to hit the board, or run 4th or 5th would help the quality of the race, too. It's not just the winner.

In terms of pointing towards races...

You can just reference the past year's race, or its historical trend. For example, the Travers will likely be a grade one every year. So that works.

Let's use the Super Derby.. earlier this decade the rating might be a tad low. But with Lawyer Ron running second, and then getting all those big wins the following year, the rating would go up. Grasshopper is also helping the "rating" as well. So trainers/owners/breeders this year would say, "The Super Derby is now a high grade two versus a low grade two it was four years ago."

Races would continually update with each passing day. When Monba runs on Sunday, he might help the rating of the CashCall Futurity if he runs well.

Like I said, there are some kinks. But I think if this were hashed-out, and sadly, I have a few pages of notes on this, it could work.