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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 ...
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.
Easy Goer also routinely ran in the 120 Beyer Speed Figure range on a regular basis in his races. [19] Easy Goer ran the fastest Beyer Speed Figure performance by any two-year-old, as well as the fastest Beyer Speed Figure performance in any Triple Crown race since Beyer racing figures were first published. [20] [21]
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.
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.