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Old 03-17-2008, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Payson Dave
Without getting real specific....speed numbers sanitize actual finish time to adjust for (among other things) track condition, weather, distance, track to track differences.

They are part Art and part Science but they are definately more relavent than raw final time comparisons
Thank you for explaining this. So they don't take pace into account like I thought? If they don't, it explains a whole lot, and I really don't think that I am wrong to think that some of these horses aren't slow.
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