>1-- Not to be too harsh about it, but "it is apparent" that sometimes fast paced races have slow final times and sometimes slow paced races have slow final times,so the slow times must have been produced by the pace?<

Point taken. I guess I wasn't clear enough. Built into my comments was the assumption that horses' speed figures were impacted relative to their norms. There are certainly races that stack up as fast-fast and slow-slow and every other combination possible.

But I talking about a situation where several horses typcially run a figure of "X" and a very fast pace causes them to run x-y.

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