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Originally Posted by RAMON201
Interesting ! With ValM if the line your using is from another track you hand enter the 3 year best when you come to the SR. This will cause a difference. Also the three year best times that are entered in ValM for the track your at are hand entered and may be different than the downloaded version.Or maybe Val4 and ValM are slightly different programs.
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Ahhh.. Three year best times is sometimes a futile effort if one does not keep up with changing track maintenance and renovated dirt or turf corses..
Del Mar comes to mind this year the track will change the "synthetic" dirt course to real dirt and increase the width of the turf course.
Also, each different track distance " track record" or "three year old best" is dependent on the quality of stakes runners that compete at each track. There are fewer grade one stakes runners that run at Hawthorne or Parx than at tracks like Saratoga or at Santa Anita.
Last point, many tracks card many graded stakes races on the same day which will affect the daily variant assigned..." BC races...derby day races, etc..