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"How fast a race should be run" before the event is rendered irrelevant by "how fast the winner should have run" after it, when the winner might have won by 10 lengths, a nose, in a 20-runner field or in a field severely depleted by non-runners.

If we are agreed that the ability of a horse is an important component in how fast that horse should be able to run - which seems to be the premise of class pars - why guess this information before the event if you can assess it much more accurately after it?

[QUOTE="J Alfred Prufrock, post: 2246757, member: 65386"] "How fast a race should be run" before the event is rendered irrelevant by "how fast the winner should have run" after it, when the winner might have won by 10 lengths, a nose, in a 20-runner field or in a field severely depleted by non-runners. If we are agreed that the ability of a horse is an important component in how fast that horse should be able to run - which seems to be the premise of class pars - why guess this information before the event if you can assess it much more accurately after it? [/QUOTE]

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