Greyhound disability is simply nothing to compare one dog to another and see which is faster, better and more likely to win. It sounds so simple when you put it that way, but when actually implemented, it becomes more complicated. The first and most important question that has to answer before making any comparison is this: what exactly are they compared to what?
Most people would probably say it’s simple. You’re just the weight factors of each dog against the same factors of the other dogs. , Since the speed position, running style – all the usual suspects. But that’s not really an explanation of how you do that. For example, let’s take speed.
First, of course, we must define what we mean by “speed” in greyhound racing. Right there, if two people in a room, you get two different answers to what speed really is. Is the speed of a greyhound ran his last race, ie your time? Is the average speed of a greyhound? Or is that the speed of the dog only in that grade at that distance?
Some people find the “speed”, comparing the time a dog in her last race at the track record at best when the dog has ever had or some degree of speed that his disability has created software. While every one of these methods have their advantages, one thing they all are missing. What about the other dogs?
This is the basis of disability as I’m concerned. As I look at the speed of various factors, I know that all they have to be evaluated against the same factors of the other dogs in this race. Thus, comparing the last race in a record time for the dog applies only if done with the 8 dogs in a race and then somehow find a way to give each dog’s weight for that outcome.
I’m not saying that the former factor has some relation to how well a dog will do in any given race. What I mean is this: you must compare each dog to other dogs of the breed, not to external factors like the weather better than the dog could have been a year or more ago and with a very different set of circumstances as far as track conditions, running even the weather and the room is concerned.
The bottom line when possible performance disadvantage to a greyhound in a race, is that you have to consider how you will do against the other 7 dogs in the race. How did he do in the past and all other information you have about this dog is only relevant in so far as it has an impact on race and the other 7 dogs are running at present.
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