Well, I don't use par final times. I use a thing I call competitive speed figure range. I just want to know if a horse is fast enough to compete in today's race. So the first thing I do, and PacePaceAppraiser does it for me now, is to determine the runing styles; then I add the speed points and then place the horses in a pace picture. This way I can clearly see if there's a pace aberration afoot or not, or if a horse will be "working" in a comfortable pace environment, or if the race is just a "mush" race. A mush race has no pace advantage, comfortable or otherwise. A much race is the type of race that you circle your contenders and then play the best odds.
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