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Originally Posted by PhantomOnTour
Final time figures for turf races are not part of my arsenal....just too much variation with multiple turf courses and rail settings at many tracks.
I prefer to do more of a fractional analysis (esp the 3fr) and therefore adjust lengths gained or lost during certain segments of the race (1/4m, 3/16m).
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This is along the lines of what I'm thinking, final time doesn't tell the story in a lot of turf races, and even on dirt as well at times. There are better ways to measure races and they can still be measured numerically.
It can get tricky with slow paces. For example, a race at 9f with a crawling pace won't really tell us how a horse will do in a race at a similar distance with a fast pace. The pace is effectively changing the distance of the race many times.
