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Originally Posted by ateamstupid
You're looking at this wrong. Beyers are computed relative to the times of other races that day, not races from past years, so you can't compare times from 42 years apart and try to match up the time differential with Beyer points. It's apples to oranges.
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thanks for this.
just like all the pearl clutching and hand wringing over times with all the races, this year and years past.
we know a track can change one hour to the next, but people still want to look back at how horse a, b or c stacked up. records are all well and good...
but i recall when a certain horse won the derby in a slow time...and then the preakness. and then he won the belmont, and slew is now in the hall of fame.