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Originally Posted by dilanesp
That's slippery.
Obviously Beyer says he is only measuring the performance, not how the figure was earned.
But he also says that his figures are the single most important handicapping factor, the way, the truth, and the light, etc. And he specifically argues that you can compare horses' figures where they finish way back to other horses' winning figures. And he dismisses the "not perservered with" reasoning and ignores the "sucked in" issue.
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Have you done a study on the "not persevered with" and "sucked in" horses to back up your claims? What percentage of these horses actually run back to the numbers and how many don't? And how do those percentages compare with horses not in the those 2 categories?
