Remember the good old days of F.I.G.S.? They reckoned 1 mile 70 yards as "8.32 furlongs." Perhaps the solution is to take the listed distance, add the run-up, and express the result in a decimal figure - example, Santa Anita's 1-mile dirt races would be 8.26 furlongs since the run-up for 1-mile dirt races at SA is 172 feet.
And track records? You know what Rhett Butler famously said to Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind: "Frankly, my dear ..."
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