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Old 05-02-2010, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by ibet2win View Post
All the things in the form that Beyer used to handicap before he came up with that ridiculous number system. You know, back when he was still picking winners. Workouts, company lines, trainer stats, pedigree, the stuff that has been around forever. The idea that a bunch of infallible humans can rate every horse in every race run every day and come up with some phantom number that indicates a horse's ability to win his next race just misses the mark with me. If they meant anything, wouldn't they lead us all to the winner and every winner be 1/5??
I don't think anyone is saying that.
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