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Old 07-13-2016, 08:05 AM   #121
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so what this chart really shows proves my point... you have a 46% chance of winning on the grass if you sit right off the speed 2nd/3rd/4th... as we all know ( i hope ).. horses are usually bunched close together on grass.

The optimal place to be is inside saving ground with a target to run down period.... to be clear i don't like it either win a jockey chokes a horse out with a strangle hold.. but that's why they do it
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Old 07-13-2016, 08:09 AM   #122
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Where did I say they were run at a fast pace?
maybe it was your quote.

"I don't know how it got started but last time I actually researched racing in England the pace was actually generally faster for turf races than it is in North America."

The pace is fast in straight sprints and straight miles due to no turns. No turns to slow horses. absolutely cannot compared to NA turn races.

In turn races they usually are usually run in packs in Europe at a slow pace.

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Old 07-13-2016, 08:43 AM   #123
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maybe it was your quote.

"I don't know how it got started but last time I actually researched racing in England the pace was actually generally faster for turf races than it is in North America."

The pace is fast in straight sprints and straight miles due to no turns. No turns to slow horses. absolutely cannot compared to NA turn races.

In turn races they usually are usually run in packs in Europe at a slow pace.

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That quote says the pace was generally faster in turf races than it was in North America. It doesn't say the pace is generally fast. Poor interpretation of my words on your part.

I know all about turns and uphill and downhill. I lived in Europe for five years and attended quite a few tracks in my time there.
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so what this chart really shows proves my point... you have a 46% chance of winning on the grass if you sit right off the speed 2nd/3rd/4th... as we all know ( i hope ).. horses are usually bunched close together on grass.

The optimal place to be is inside saving ground with a target to run down period.... to be clear i don't like it either win a jockey chokes a horse out with a strangle hold.. but that's why they do it
Another poor interpretation in this thread, but we often see what we want to see. The data I posted shows that speed is more important on dirt. Of course it is, everyone already knows that. But it also shows that the closer a horse is to the front on turf, the better the chances of winning. Sure, all the other positions added up together have a better chance than the leader, but the best is up front.

I'd also add that turf racing is a lot more likely to see a hopeless horse run out to the lead than dirt racing which holds back the win percentage a bit.
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Old 07-13-2016, 09:05 AM   #125
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That quote says the pace was generally faster in turf races than it was in North America. It doesn't say the pace is generally fast. Poor interpretation of my words on your part.

I know all about turns and uphill and downhill. I lived in Europe for five years and attended quite a few tracks in my time there.
in turn races the pace is not faster in the uk than in North America, it's simply not true

I too seen many races in the uk too and been to a lot of tracks there.

Prolly just we will have to agree to disagree on this point.

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Old 07-13-2016, 09:12 AM   #126
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in turn races the pace is not faster in the uk than in North America, it's simply not true

I too seen many races in the uk too and been to a lot of tracks there.

Prolly just we will have to agree to disagree on this point.

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I have no idea how you are measuring this so yes, we'll agree to disagree. Funny how you now changed your point of contention though.
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Old 07-13-2016, 10:01 AM   #127
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The data I posted shows that speed is more important on dirt. Of course it is, everyone already knows that. But it also shows that the closer a horse is to the front on turf, the better the chances of winning. Sure, all the other positions added up together have a better chance than the leader, but the best is up front.
This is correct, but it's still missing the point I have been making throughout the thread.

The w2w data on turf would be worse except for the fact that the riders are slowing the paces down to a crawl to compensate for their perception that that's the best way to run turf races and give all the horses a decent shot (and trainers are training that way).

In the beginning, polytrack at KEE was a disaster in terms of w2w winners. Everyone was complaining. Then the jockey's adjusted the paces to a crawl. So the w2w% went up a bit. Looking at the new w2w% was not telling you that poly was now OK for speed. It was telling you that the jockeys compensated. (eventually they also tweaked the surface)

If people started complaining about some slug that went w2w off 6f in 117, they would be correct that he was a slug and got lucky because of the lack of aggressiveness. But asking the riders to get more aggressive again would just send us back to the opening days of the meet when everyone was whining that speed couldn't win.

The surface is the surface. The best trainers and riders try to adjust to it to give their horses a reasonable chance of winning. But within it, they make mistakes in some races. When everyone knows it's a very speed favoring surface, the mistakes tend to result from being too aggressive. In turf routes in NY, the mistakes are clustered towards not being aggressive enough.
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Old 07-13-2016, 10:38 AM   #128
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I have no idea how you are measuring this so yes, we'll agree to disagree.
Measurement via direct observations of 1000's races both here and the UK and reading the comments of literally thousands of races in the racingpost.com comment section of how the race was run and the condition of the turf. Run at a strong gallop is a comment not usually read in turn races in the UK.

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Old 07-13-2016, 11:01 AM   #129
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......The w2w data on turf would be worse except for the fact that the riders are slowing the paces down to a crawl to compensate for their perception that that's the best way to run turf races and give all the horses a decent shot (and trainers are training that way).....
It is not a perception! But your analysis is spot on.
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On dirt, the win% and ITM% decline very obviously and significantly with each move backward in early position; the more forwardly horses are placed early on dirt, the better in the long run. But in turf routes, unless a horse gets the lead there's essentially no overall benefit from more forward position except to the extent that it keeps horses within the front half or even the front two-thirds of the field. So why force the issue? A turf route rider whose horse is parked on the outside shoulder or hip of the leader a couple of furlongs into the race is usually not improving his own chances by forcing the pace aggressively during the middle stages.
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On dirt, the win% and ITM% decline very obviously and significantly with each move backward in early position; the more forwardly horses are placed early on dirt, the better in the long run. But in turf routes, unless a horse gets the lead there's essentially no overall benefit from more forward position except to the extent that it keeps horses within the front half or even the front two-thirds of the field. So why force the issue? A turf route rider whose horse is parked on the outside shoulder or hip of the leader a couple of furlongs into the race is usually not improving his own chances by forcing the pace aggressively during the middle stages.
That's a good point. Also, a lot of the horses that are in the back of the field are not there because it's their running style. It's because they are slow horses. So at least some small part of the reason the stats are generally worse for trailers on both dirt and turf is that they are longshots that wouldn't have much of shot from anywhere.
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That's a good point. Also, a lot of the horses that are in the back of the field are not there because it's their running style. It's because they are slow horses. So at least some small part of the reason the stats are generally worse for trailers on both dirt and turf is that they are longshots that wouldn't have much of shot from anywhere.
Exactly. Many of those horses at/near the back are slow due to lack of ability or some physical problem that day, or because of atypical gate/equipment/early trip trouble. Habitual deep closers with legitimate ability in turf routes are at an overall disadvantage but not by nearly as much as some raw stats on early running position would suggest.
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This is correct, but it's still missing the point I have been making throughout the thread.

The w2w data on turf would be worse except for the fact that the riders are slowing the paces down to a crawl to compensate for their perception that that's the best way to run turf races and give all the horses a decent shot (and trainers are training that way).

In the beginning, polytrack at KEE was a disaster in terms of w2w winners. Everyone was complaining. Then the jockey's adjusted the paces to a crawl. So the w2w% went up a bit. Looking at the new w2w% was not telling you that poly was now OK for speed. It was telling you that the jockeys compensated. (eventually they also tweaked the surface)

If people started complaining about some slug that went w2w off 6f in 117, they would be correct that he was a slug and got lucky because of the lack of aggressiveness. But asking the riders to get more aggressive again would just send us back to the opening days of the meet when everyone was whining that speed couldn't win.

The surface is the surface. The best trainers and riders try to adjust to it to give their horses a reasonable chance of winning. But within it, they make mistakes in some races. When everyone knows it's a very speed favoring surface, the mistakes tend to result from being too aggressive. In turf routes in NY, the mistakes are clustered towards not being aggressive enough.
All this says to me is that dirt is different. Well, no kidding. We all know that. Speed certainly isn't as big a factor. But there were comments in this thread saying how bad speed was and that is a terrible place to be on turf. That simply isn't true as I'm sure you know.

My experience has been that speed horses are underbet on turf and I take advantage of it. It is probably due to a lot of the stuff I've seen written here and elsewhere. Yes, the races are different, but they aren't different to the level some think.

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Measurement via direct observations of 1000's races both here and the UK and reading the comments of literally thousands of races in the racingpost.com comment section of how the race was run and the condition of the turf. Run at a strong gallop is a comment not usually read in turn races in the UK.

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You think "run at a strong gallop" is common on turf here? I don't.
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That's a good point. Also, a lot of the horses that are in the back of the field are not there because it's their running style. It's because they are slow horses. So at least some small part of the reason the stats are generally worse for trailers on both dirt and turf is that they are longshots that wouldn't have much of shot from anywhere.
Of course that is true. But like I said, I think you'd find a higher percentage of longshots lead or are up close in turf races than in dirt races, mostly because the pace is slower.
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