Just how much faster are horses now?

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The most interesting thing to me is that how the gap between being a stakes horse and a claiming horse seemed to be much wider on everyones numbers 10 years ago. I think it really speaks to how "good" claiming trainers have become over the last ten years.

And this is clearly indicated by how many claiming horses are stepping up and beating stake horses. Or, it just might be the case that the methods utilized in deriving these figures might need some tweaking. (I would venture a wild guess that it'd a lot easier to, predictively, time time-trials as opposed to pelotons.) But why would these guys want to do that, when their systems are clearly IRREFRAGABLE?