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Originally Posted by cj
I always say this when discussing ground loss. I like the analogy that if me and a friend of equal ability decide to race 400 meters with me in the outside lane and the friend on the inside, but walk until the last 50 yards, the ground loss will be completely irrelevant. If we go all out the whole way, I obviously have no chance and will be beaten badly, the ground loss is everything.
Horses racing on turns will always fall somewhere in between those extremes. But it is much worse for a horse to be wide during the fast part of a race. On dirt, this is usually the first turn, while on turf it is often the second turn. But in any case the ground loss hurts more when the real racing is occuring.
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given that the sheer number of sprints that are run (70%?), it really has a lot less of a bearing. Its not often a horse, on dirt that is, is making a run while being 6 wide the whole time. 3w in a sprint means nothing in my book but with a ground loss figure system I guess they would be upgraded points.
