You really reckon the sixth is better? I can't see that - for example how does that augur for Doriemus' second to M&P in the 96 caul cup, beaten 7.5 lengths? Does that make his 8th beaten 6 lengths in another group one race a better run than 2nd beaten 7.5?

To make my point another way: back to my theoretical horse - say the winner (who won by 5 to our theoretical horse second) got afflicted by a virus at the stalls passed to him by Marty McFly in his DeLorean as he went back in time for the purposes of this example, and became a late scratching and our theoretical horse ended up winning because the intended winner was scratched, is his run still a length worse than his sixth beaten four in the same grade with the same weight the previous week???

THINK about that one and the ramifications before responding.

Duritz.