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Old 11-09-2014, 12:39 PM   #10
thaskalos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Greyfox
That's the theory.
In my own handicapping, I seldom pay attention to the first quarter in sprints.
I find the second call the most important, for my purposes. I do quite well, thank you.
This is my opinion too. Yes...the first quarter appears significant in retrospect...but it has lousy predictive value...IMO. You can't reliably predict the controlling speed today by looking at prior first-quarter times.
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