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Furlongs Per Day-Correction
IMO
Ideal furlongs per day should be 0.4-0.6 for eastern tracks. Avg.=4.8.
Ideal furlongs per day should be 0.5-0.7 for western tracks. Avg.= 5.5.
Re: Physicality Observations of Fitness
This is very difficult to do, especially for races with full fields and/or at expansive paddocks such as SAR where it's impossible to get close to all the horses running. For those horses for which up close observations are not possible, you have about 5 seconds for each as they pass by on the way to the track.
I'm experimenting with a paddock inspection app and workflow as shown on the two images below for use on my iPad to score up to 12 physicality traits recommended by the experts for each horse, as shown on the images. These analytics are then merged with all my other handicapping analytics, but never so much as to account for >3% of all factors (unless the horse goes total bonkers in the paddock and doesn't get scratched.)
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