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When a track runs on a new surface, I keep track of the times.
These are the times through 11/21.
There were 21 5f races. Fastest 57.1/Slowest 1:01.4/Average 58.4
There were 42 5.5f races. Fastest 1:03.2/Slowest 1:08.2/Average 1:06.0
There were 58 1/70 races. Fastest 1:41.2/Slowest 1:48.0/Average 1:44.2
There were 30 1/16 races. Fastest 1:44.1/Slowest 1:49.1/Average 1:46.4
There were 4 9f races. Two were 1:55.0, two were 1:55.1
As CJ wrote, the times got faster as the track settled or firmed up. The fastest times were during the last two weeks. Because of this I'm adding one full second to the fastest times for my handicapping.
Thus, my pars are 58.1, 1:04.2, 1:42,2, and 1:45.1
I use Dave's par books and I will make the sprints 2 ticks slower than the dirt sprints, and 4 ticks lower than the 1/16 dirt races. Unless I find I need to make further adjustments.
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Dave, I used to purchase Jim Bailes (Bayles) par books. One thing he did I found useful is he put the total races of each distance for each rating as I did above.
If I remember his headings looked like this--
1/16(67) 1 18(43) 1 1/36(4)
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