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Originally Posted by MJC922
I look at races as a series of mini skirmishes where horses run one another off their feet at key points by asserting their class and the eventual final time is just a stitched together byproduct of those skirmishes. It may align with quality of the horse's efforts but sometimes not so much.
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1 million percent agree.
Quite frankly, the time model of measuring horse performance is idiotic.
The problem is that the "class label" model of measuring field strength is also idiotic.