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Originally Posted by thaskalos
You are forgetting that the main part of the handicapping process is in grading the horse's performace so we could foretell what might occur in FUTURE races. In your race 2 above, the blocking and the steadying "didn't matter at all" as far as winning THAT race was concerned. But the interference that this horse was subjected to could have a story to tell going FORWARD.
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That's true too.
But sometimes a horse can get into a whole bunch of trouble but wouldn't have run appreciably better without it. That's what I was getting at.
