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Originally Posted by jasperson
If he can be a contender on pace,class and speed is there something that will cause him to be better or worse in this race? That is question handicapping has to answer.
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To me, that question can be answered with equal validity either purely through subjective judgment and experience/memory, or through quantitative analysis (numbers), coupled with probabilities associated with those numbers and their patterns, and with a horse's ranking in comparison to its competitors, all of which a computer can calculate and manipulate, without the need for subjective input (other than whatever opinion and judgment may have gone into the formulation of the basic numbers/figures themselves).
