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Originally Posted by SecretAgentMan
Who did the "sheets" favor to win the KD?
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Who did they favor? I suppose Justify but that's not really relevant. They're not a tout service, they make speed figures.
As it relates to horses getting faster/slower, Ragozin numbers haven't changed much over the years but TG has horses getting faster at a noticeable rate.
So... the question becomes, do we believe horses are getting faster or not? If you believe they are, which makes a whole lot of sense to me, then the TG figures are the only ones that have a chance of being correct as a whole.
IMO, if a figure maker comes out and says, you can't compare our current figures to our historical figures, they are essentially admitting that at some point the figures were not accurate... whether it be now, 5, 10, 20 years ago, at some point they were guessing. Or maybe they've been guessing all along....
You can not say the figures are only meant to measure today's performance... No, if you are making good figures, everything else will fall into place and the numbers will hold up historically
