Re: Last 10 Preakness Winners. Oddity or Has Something Changed? (512 Views)

The reason I started up this path was due to the high number (5) horses that entered the Derby with negative numbers. No big negative numbers, but -2,-0,-2,-1,-2. That's the most horses with negative pre-Derby numbers over the last 10 years.

From 2005-2009 the numbers of negative horses entered in Derby were, 4,4,3,4,3.

From the 2010-2014 drop-off in negative horses entered was 1,1,1,3,3. And now this year there are 5.

Presuming AP ran a negative number, and there are as many, and more, horses with negatives, regarding the Derby, is the cycle reverting backwards, or might this be a one year anomaly? I know one year indicates nothing, but the upward trend is mimicking the pre-2010 years.

As my Uncle Albert said, "not all that can be counted counts, not all that counts can be counted."