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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
What you are saying is more relevant to speed figure makers that are trying to make accurate track variants and adjustments to their figures for ground loss.
A comparison handicapper would say:
Arrogate beat Gun Runner by 2 1/4 lengths. He spotted him 2-3 lengths at the start (or whatever your own adjustment might be for the start) and he covered around 46 feet more than him at various points in the race (give or take Trakus error) etc... Then he would try to quantify his overall trip relative to Gun Runner's, given how the track was playing, how the race flowed, etc...
That's very basic. You'd look at the trip in more detail but I don't want to write a book. :-)
You do that down the line for the major horses until you have an overall assessment of the race.
The conclusion would tell you how much better you think Arrogate was than Gun Runner and the others. Then what you think of Gun Runner and the others as horses would tell you how good Arrogate was.
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Well no kidding Captain Obvious.
I think you said the same thing I did with a lot more words.
What I was talking about doesn't have to involve speed figures. Horses from different races on the same day often race against each other on subsequent days. The Godolphin Mile and World Cup would be a good example, or the Sprint and the Mile. What if a comparative handicapper wants to compare horses from those races? The delta wouldn't help much, but the total ground loss would.
