This thread is all over the board, all I can say about the Beyer figures is that if you don't like 'em don't use 'em and I'll be glad to take your money.
About synthetic surfaces: We just don't have enough data to incorporate it in our normal handicapping, especially when shippers move in. It's one thing to 'cap races where all horses have experience on it, but it's just a guess when you have dirt and turf invaders in the same race on the poly for the first time. I think we've seen horses recover faster from it from the Hollywood - Santa Anita transition, but there is nothing to go on with first time synthetic.
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