[Ted Craven]

Robert, Houndog,

Actually, although it would be a lot of work (and definitely something for the future), soon after I digested the adjustment process Doc had created, it occurred to me that it could in fact be a better choice to adjust all lines to today's track, rather than to Sartin Downs -simply by the device of identifying the ITV for today's track/surface/distance and calling it 0, then expressing all the other ITVs as differentials from that 0 ITV. By this means, times for horses with PP lines from today's track would appear more normal when adjusted (i.e. the only remaining adjustments would be DTV and distance equalizations). There should be no relative differences in factor rankings and ultimate predictivity (though the actual numbers ranked would differ).

But I had to deliver something which could be proven to function as Val and Spec have done (for credentials). Once those credentials are established, we can start to take the steps into the future I'd like to think Doc would have done (and if we're lucky, may give guidance on, going forward).

Ted