Thx,

Calder does Turf Chute that 9 mark turf race. I never knew it was shy of 9...lol

Appreciate the explanation and have no reason to not believe the differences you are talking about probably will not amount to more than a point, give or take.

Doing it off the horses is the whole issue with the Atto. That race is troubling.


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> CTC-- there are some tracks where the about
> distance is shorter because the gate can't be
> backed all the way up. Del Mar used to run 1 1/4
> on dirt that way, CRC 1 1/8th turf.
>
> We don't ask our trackmen to measure "about"
> differences, and it's not clear whether they
> actually could without going out there with a tape
> measure. Some tracks run exact "abouts", like the
> about 7 at Kee, and for the ones on dirt we have a
> standard correction. Turf is different, because of
> the pace issues, and you end up doing it by the
> horses anyway, so the relationship to other races
> is not that big a deal. Atto day was a perfect
> example-- when you look at that "about" race, the
> entire range of possibilities is less than a
> point, and at that level the other races wouldn't
> make any difference anyway.