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This implies that Secretariat would have had the highest ever Beyer speed figure. [18] However, Beyer also acknowledged that by some calculations, Count Fleet's Beyer speed figures might have reached 150. [19] As Beyer has noted, a speed figure is a numerical expression of a horse's final time, universalized for distance, track surface, and the ...
The 103 Beyer Speed Figure from a maiden win at Gulfstream Park on March 30, a 13 ¾-length score first time out, remains the top figure in the field. And after a $100,000 Churchill Downs ...
Unbeaten in two career starts, including a maiden victory at Gulfstream Park on March 30 that earned a 103 Beyer Speed Figure, the best number in the field. But that was at seven furlongs, coming ...
It came five weeks after the greatest performance by a 3-year-old this season, winning the Grade 1 Florida Derby by 13 1/2 lengths, credited with a 110 gaudy Beyer Speed Figure.
Andrew Beyer (born November 17, 1943) is an American expert on horse race betting who designed the Beyer Speed Figure. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, he attended Harvard and wrote for the school paper, the Crimson, before committing to full time betting.
If the Beyer Speed Figure calculation had been developed during that time, Andrew Beyer calculated that Secretariat would have earned a figure of 139, the highest he has ever assigned. [ 44 ] [ 82 ] A large crowd had started gathering around the paddock hours before the Belmont, many missing the races run earlier in the day for a chance to see ...
Arcangues, who paid $288.00 to win the 1992 Breeders' Cup Classic, had defeated 1991 two-year-old champion Arazi by six lengths on the grass in Europe, which translates to a Beyer figure fourteen points higher than Arazi's. All of these high-priced "figure horses" won after the much-lamented mainstreaming of the Beyer figures in 1992.
Purchased for $950.000 as a yearling, the Speightstown colt is unbeaten in three starts, including a win the Grade 3 Best Pal at Del Mar on Aug. 13 that earned a 103 Beyer Speed Figure, by far the ...