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Originally Posted by cj
At tracks that do it on a limited basis, it would pretty easy to spot. If they eliminate it for all races, it will very hard to know what the Lasix effect is. I've always thought it was about 7 points on the Beyer scale when Lasix was much less common, but that was mostly for horses that didn't really need it. For those that did it could obviously be much more.
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Just though of this is I typed the above, but 7 points would be worth about 14 pounds on the TimeformUS system, so the 12 I proposed isn't too far off. I'd even say 12 might be better as I doubt the effect of weight is a simple and of course it will vary horse to horse anyway. It doesn't matter on our adjustments currently because we don't see that big a swing very often, if ever.
But I'd guess the more weight is added, the effect starts to grow, something like this:
5 pounds 2 points
10 pounds 5 points
15 pounds 9 points
