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Originally Posted by Tom
Excellent point.
And when the race becomes a 2-furlong sprint, the closers, who have been running in their normal comfort zone, are much more able to pass the front runners who has been out of his CZ.
the FR has to re-break while the closers have to make no adjustments.
Many good things are coming out of this thread.
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Music to my ears. That was just the understanding that I was hoping for when I first startled this thread on pace patterns. your example also illustrates traditional pace analysis - the only element that pace pattern analysis adds is the additional effect one finds when the early pace is run unevenly.
