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Originally Posted by Buzz
Richie,
This is a real brain teaser. Somehow you have isolated, in each race, the horse most likely to improve the most.
This is something that I thought was not possible using the matchup because one of the elimination rules is to throw out slow horses. And it is slow horses (with proper training) that are most likely to improve the most. Hence the long prices.
Since these races were still avaliable from TM I downloaded them into RDSS and was certain I would find the answer. My intuition tells me it has something to do with pacelines, but I do not know what. Distance switches?
I am no stranger to homework so without giving out the whole picture, how about a clue or two?
If you have described how to get these types of horses before would you please point me to the discussion topic so I can try and figure this out? 
Buzz |
Buzz
This has nothing to do with the matchup thats why I posted here. Just something I have been noticing and remembering for like 10 years.
Bill was asked by Howard in the late 90's to track what long priced winners looked like on the early late graph. Bill spent over 2 years accumulating data for Howard's project that was going to be published in upcoming followups.
Bill had made this special pad he named a "tick pad" that was a little sheet with pertinent data for the final 5 contenders in each race. We were the only 2 guys at the Meadowlands walking around with a bunch of these things and nobody had a clue what they were. We did however. Then Howard took ill and Bill's work remained unpublished.
My take on things was to look at the past performances instead of the e/l that was already being examined closely by Bill. So I started keeping track of things like what was posted above.
I see 10 years later that history STILL repeats itself man.
Richie