Lengths behind vs. actual finish time

[kenwoodall]

It is easy for tracks to use actual finish time to the 1/100 second rather than lengths behind the winner. Would you like to see the change?

[kenwoodall]

Yes Ken that is a great idea! Glad we thougt of it!! LOL!!!

[Brian Flewwelling]

But then we would have to calculate the lengths back to get a 'picture' of the race.

And that would lead to a bunch more discussion lines and arguments over which method was best at predicting ...


Brian

[kenwoodall]

Running line and how wide gives me my pix! 5 lengths per second was never accurate- a good horse runs 6f or 3960 feet in 1.10 or 70 seconds= 58.6 feet per second. divided by 5 = 11.7 feet= the length of a horse! /
Actually a horse is about 9 feet in length - 58.6 divided by 9 = 6.5 lengths per second. The tracks have lengths painted on the rails and do not want to buy new paint! LOL!!
If you had 4f work track speed and actual horse finish time life would be easier.