Race #7 @ AP yesterday (Thurs) is an example of sorts regarding your slow pace question. The 2nd place horse #5 [b]Royal Standard[/b] was overlooked @ 25/1.

If you glance at his sheet from the red board room his last race is noted sl_pace. That last race was also his first turf race and interestingly a big jump up new top.

The other semi-clue was the trainer, although a low pct winner, has a positive ROI with short rest which in this case was about 11 days.

Bottom line the horse did not look competitive at first glance. To further complicate the issue the race came off the turf yet sl_pace split the three horses tabbed in the TG analysis to create the only significant payoff of the day that I noticed.

For those who read between the lines and exercised some imagination in this race I salute you. I like the way TG notes data that is not objective and cannot be measured. I would be disappointed if they did speculate - that's my role.

On another subject, what is the symbol (just kidding) for large heart gene which evidently AP as well as Rachel Valentina? are suspected to have?