Re: TGJB-Re: The answer is as easy as "pi" (813 Views)
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HP (IP Logged)
Date: May 21, 2003 04:03PM
Jerry,
It is germaine, but you are not making the connections.
You should review (if you can find them) Friedman's posts about them not using the last part of the turn in ground loss calculations. He gave a very detailed explanation of how the horse straightening out for the stretch cancels out the centrifugal force of the turn. I'm paraphrasing, but you might find something interesting in there.
More or less banking on the turns will definitely have an impact on the outside horses (more should help), but as Chris points out above, at a track like Belmont, with less banking and longer turns, the outside horses will not have to travel as fast to keep up (though they will lose the same amount of ground).
In any case, it's difficult to understand how Friedman/Ragozin arrived at not using the last part of the turn to do their ground loss calculations, since the ground is lost regardless. I'm also pretty sure that this is a marked contrast to your own ground loss calculations. HP