W/E Beyer Review

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

TFM, if the Colonial race got a big figure I would make the same case as I did with Pays to Dream's big PIM win.

When the conditions are like that - some horses seem to handle the going a lot better than others causing FAR greater margins of victory and defeat than normal.

I tend to dismiss those performances - but it doesn't mean those horses weren't possibly clearly best anyway.

It's impossible not to think of Brilliance in the Kent a couple years ago.

Bottom line....the fig is meaningless. Sailor's Cap is a good horse, probably the leading US 3YO turf horse right now, but quantifying that race considering the conditions is fruitless.

I don't know why this is hard for people to understand.

[jcs11204]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

It's impossible not to think of Brilliance in the Kent a couple years ago.

Bottom line....the fig is meaningless. Sailor's Cap is a good horse, probably the leading US 3YO turf horse right now, but quantifying that race considering the conditions is fruitless.

I don't know why this is hard for people to understand.

i am having a hard time understanding it

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Bottom line....the fig is meaningless. Sailor's Cap is a good horse, probably the leading US 3YO turf horse right now, but quantifying that race considering the conditions is fruitless.

I don't know why this is hard for people to understand.

Here's the point; why it's not fruitless. No matter what your method of evaluation, this race needs to come up huge for SC. He ran an incredible race. To not be able to capture it in terms of figures, for whatever reason, is a huge flaw in the system (if the case is such).