EZ-- you probably think that's a simple question, right? You forget what industry we're in.

As I've posted before, a length in this business is a measure of time, not distance, and there is no official designation of how much time. The different teletimer companies use different formulas, and won't reveal what they are, although Equibase assures me they are close.

We eyeballed it a long time ago (before we knew how complicated the question is) as roughly 10 feet, and a path as somewhere around 3 feet or a little more, and using pi times radius, worked out it was approximately a length. (I actually came up with that way back at Ragozin's, and found out he was using almost exactly that, something like .96). As a practical matter, the ground info is limited in accuracy (trackman don't tell you the horse was in the 2.9 path), so it's never going to be super accurate, but it's pretty close.



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