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Here's a monkey wrench that I remember from when I made my own figures. Due to the limited use of the turf course, the bottom of the barrel was often a much higher claiming price than on the dirt. For instance, SoCal, back then, had $10k dirt claimers, but the lowest turf claimer was $40k. As a result, a lot of those turf claimers were filled with horses who weren't worth $40k. And I had to end up making adjustments to par times to reflect that.
So if your goal is to make a dirt race equivalent to a turf race at the same class level, that may be impossible / inaccurate.
There's a lot of this that is just art and not science.
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