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Quick note on how to adjust for beaten lengths. As mentioned, you can usually get the horse times via the PPs if using something you can customize like Formulator or TimeformUS. I think BRIS has the option as well if PP Generator is still supported. But if not, you would need to adjust the times as follows. This could easily be programmed in a TI-82 or Excel, but with the calculator it would require two additional inputs, beaten lengths at the pace call and beaten lengths at the finish.
In the examples I use 9 feet per length. People may say 8 is better, or 10 is better, but in the end it doesn't matter. The various photo companies are using 9 feet to calculate beaten lengths at the finish so it is best to stick with that. There are 660 feet in a furlong.
Formula:
TotalFeetOfCall / (( TotalFeetOfCall - BeatenLengths * 9 ) / TimeOfCall ) = HorseTime
Example 1: Pace call four furlongs, 46.20 call time and horse is 5 lengths behind.
2640 / (( 2640 - 5 * 9 ) / 46.20 ) = 47.00
Example 2: Race distance seven furlongs, 82.50 final time and horse is 3 lengths behind
4620 / (( 4620 - 3 * 9 ) / 82.50 ) = 82.98
For the most part, you'd be pretty safe just adding 0.16 per beaten length for sprints, 0.17 for routes. But if you want precision, the above will work.
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