12th May 2006, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: Mt Tamborine
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Originally Posted by duckymay
By the way that theory that kilograms to lengths is different in the wet is a fallacy. Horse A beating Horse B by by 7 lengths, on a dry track they say it's 10.5 kgs, on a wet track say 5kgs. Not true, still need the 10kg turnaround to make it up.
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Although the difference is not double from wet to dry tracks there is definitely a difference between Good and Heavy. From number crunching 12 years races I got a steady rise in the equivalent distance a horse gets beaten by in worse and worse going.
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