Daily Racing Form Speed Ratings, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-29


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Daily RatingsThe Racing Form Speed Ratings The handicappers and statisticians of DAILY RACDJG FORM have evolved a Speed Rating system that is far superior to any yet devised Instead of being based merely on track records the ratings are based primarily on the constant or mean speed of the track allowances thus being made for variation in footing By this method when a horse earns a rating of say 85 for a sixfurlong race at Belmont Park he earns the same rating by the samV effort at any other track Speed ratings are shown in the past performance after the claiming price r race classification


Persistent Link: https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1940s/drf1948052901/drf1948052901_21_2
Local Identifier: drf1948052901_21_2
Library of Congress Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/unk82075800