Big Brown Beyer 109

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Originally Posted by Bravado2112

I suspect Beyer used an independent variant for the same reason Jerry Brown did at Thorograph and posted about yesterday:

don't have trackman work yet, but if the wind was as strong (24mph) as they reported on TV and in their faces leaving the Derby gate, it would slow down the time for that race significantly (they run through the stretch twice), and speed up the times for the one turn races significantly, especially for the ones longer than 6f. This is going to come up a very big figure-- On Beyer it would be about neg 2 TG, before adjusting for ground.

The other routes run 1.5f shorter into the alleged strong wind. 5 points is about 3 lengths at 10f on Beyers scale. It is a big stretch to say the wind caused that much difference over the extra 1.5 furlongs the horses ran into the wind.