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Inconsistent Ratings

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  • 28-12-2014 5:52pm
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    FIVE2_THREE
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭


    Someone must explain to me how and why Just A Way is still the highest rated horse in the world. He was defeated (Again) last night just as he was defeated the time before that and the time before that in the Arc. Just A Way hasn't won a race since June but yet he has remained number 1 or number 2 of the world's highest rated horses. In all of my 25+ years of being in and around this sport I've never seen such inconstancy.
    https://www.timeform.com/Racing/Articles/2014_Global_Rankings


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    #2
    Meath Centre Forward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭Meath Centre Forward


    Ratings reward performance not consistency or lack of it. It's purely a lengths vs weight thing. He posted that figure earlier in the year and probably has run to it since - still doesn't mean he didn't put that good performance though.


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    tryfix
    Registered Users Posts: 2,702 ✭✭✭tryfix


    His high rating was for a 9f win, his last three races were 12f races so his 9f performance hasn't been disproven or devalued by any subsequent run. In the International classifications you'll see horses rated differently at the different trips they raced at during the year.

    Strange bunch those Japanese 12f horses, they keep turning the form around with each other.

    Not very impressed at seeing Kingman at the top of the heap.


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