Re: Compromised How? (811 Views)
Posted by:
TGJB (IP Logged)
Date: August 22, 2002 04:02PM
The answer is no, but I also want to address what seems to be a common misconception. We don't have a projected # for a race. We look at ALL the horses who ran in the race, comparing what they have been running with the figures they would be assigned now. An everyday occurance has one horse exploding, most running about what they run, and the rest running X's. If we used a projected figure for the RACE, the winner would get that, and the rest would recieve bad numbers.
So I use all the horses' histories to make figures. Fortunately, most extreme slow paces come on turf, making it easy to know when to subtract for pace. I would add that Time-Form does this far more often due to the frequent slow paces in Europe. They create two figures for each race--time figures (based purely on time), and the ones you see in DRF, which are equivalent to what we do.
TGJB