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Originally Posted by Tom
I think class is something you cannot put a number on for a horse. The pace and speed figures give you clues, and they can tell you what the operational class of the horse might be now, but class itself is more than that. You want to see class in action, watch Zenyatta in the last strides, refusing to lose. Put a number on that. Class was Affirmed not giving in to Alydara in the Belmont. It was Forego beating Honest Pleasure at the wire.
But I agree that what the trainer thinks class is is very playable every day.
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If a horse is actually quickening we could put a number on it provided that we had data coming from a realtime source. The trouble is what we have is (at best) a 6+ second internal split running into a headwind or tailwind which itself would also require real time data to put it into context. Yeah I believe some horses are smart and win close ones, Forty Niner, Favorite Trick etc, but there are also others without a whole lot of intangibles who would wipe the floor with the former e.g. Skip Away.
