How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

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How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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Should be an interesting discussion.

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Re: Re: How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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About the same as a piece of string

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Re: Re: How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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Not sure it will be interesting some horses improve with blinkers on and some horses not, maybe I should take the blinkers off as it might be a trick question?

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Re: Re: How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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Ask Mike Azzie, he puts blinkers on everything :)

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11 years 7 months ago
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Olympic Glory improved by plenty with the blinkers..:)

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Re: Re: How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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Want To build It into My software...I think atm Hibs is the closest :S

Seriously though it works for soms and for others no impact and It varies even more over distance & experience of a horse...so battling with this formula as a variable...

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11 years 7 months ago
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i like blinkers on sprinters if they show pace and then stop

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Re: Re: How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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hibernia Wrote:
> About the same as a piece of string


I was going to say 'it depends' but I think you hit the nail on the head - some may improve 2 lengths, some may improve 1/2 a length, some will not improve, some will go backwards - impossible to tell - one of the factors ( the main one being horses are not machines) that imo means no system can predict the outcome of a race with certainty - and that's why it always remains a challenge to interpret the various factors - one can use a system only up to a point - the final analysis needs a human 'touch'

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11 years 7 months ago
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Loops...I agree with most guys here..differ from horse to horse...but ive learned some trainers have mastered that art!When they put blinkers on...80% of the time their horses improve loads...so maybe focus on what trainers are good with it...rather than what horses...

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11 years 7 months ago
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also depends who recommends the blinkers, if its just for the sake of ''hoping for improvement'' or has a jockey like Strydom got off a horse and said blinkers will help this horse etc...

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Re: Re: How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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Accordig to my stats there is no effect across the population. Will share...

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Re: Re: How many lenghts of improvement (if any) is blinkers worth ?

11 years 7 months ago
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Is half a cup half full or half empty ?

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