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    On 9/10/2019 at 10:28 AM, Snert said:

    RP times have a very similar seconds / furlong for the 5f sprint as the 7f race - in fact the 7f race has a slightly faster secs / flng than the 5f sprint - a bit odd !!

     

    I wonder if anomolies like this can partly be accounted for by the fact that it's a standing start from the stalls

    Let's say it takes 100 yards for horses to get up to speed ......... that's a bigger proportion of a 5f race than a 7f race during which the horses are not at race speed

    I thought about these things a lot when doing all weather speed figures a few years ago but as it was impossible to put it into figures and the likely effect was probably minimal I just ignored it

    For betting purposes I was looking for big gaps betwen horses which might mean something rather than a pound here and pound there

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