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tony soprano

31st December 2007, 06:09 PM

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=7 width=708 border=1><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=center colSpan=8>Rosehill 29/12/07

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">Race

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Winner

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">Distance

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">Overall

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">200 average

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">First section

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">Last Section

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">Winner’s last section & position in run.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R1

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Baadi Blasted

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1300m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:17.23

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">11.88

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">35.86

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">24.34

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">23.94. 2nd. 3 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R2 

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Guillotine

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1900m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:56.77

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">12.29

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">37.59

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">23.81

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">23.28. 4th. 2 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R3 

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Rock Me Baby

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1100m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:05.12

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">11.84

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">35.59

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">23.47

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">23.22. 3rd. 4 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R4 

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Canary Islands

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1200m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:10.31

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">11.71

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">35.64

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">23.15

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">23.15. 2nd. 2 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R5 

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Treat

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1100m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:04.73

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">11.76

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">36.69

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">22.55**

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">22.55. 3rd. 3 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R6 

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">You Raise Me Up

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1100m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:03.80

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">11.60**

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">35.71

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">22.83

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">22.55. 2nd. 3 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R7 

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Party Crasher

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1500m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:29.87

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">11.98

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">36.75

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">23.70

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">23.70. 2nd. 3 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center width="5%">R8 

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="20%">Angel Girl

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="9%">1200m

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">1:10.43

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="10%">11.73

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">35.42**

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="8%">23.34

</TD><TD vAlign=center width="29%">22.92. 5th. 5 off in the straight.

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center colSpan=8>Track: Good

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center colSpan=8>Bias: Handy ++

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

been getting theses sectionals reports dont know if anyone else receives them but what is peoples throughts on them and best way to use them as references

thanks ts

crash

1st January 2008, 09:41 AM

I get them, but maybe not from the same source.

IMHO, sectionals are useless unless the overall time of a race is within 2 sec. of the race record and the race wasn't a blanket finish. If a race qualifies there, it's worth looking at. I then ignore the rest of the meeting's races.

The last 600m can be misleading and the winner might not have run the best sectional. Questions that need to be asked are: How much ground did it have to cover? did it sneak through a rail's gap on the corner, or did it race 3 wide or get held up?

Without watching a race replay several times, sectional times can be very misleading.
Was a horse being whipped hard by a senior jockey [they hit a heck of a lot harder than a apprentice] 10 to 20 times? If so, the horse ran a gut-buster and will be useless next race. Was the horse held up, running wide and covering a lot more distance which would make that horses time a lot slower that it really was etc. etc. ? Without studying the replays the times are mostly useless.

I used to do all of the above myself once for Sat. meetings, but now I subscribe to someone that does all the above [better than I ever did] for me and then get a detailed report with special mention of very good runs time wise. Usually they are not the winning horse. Those horses and others I personally decide from the report, go into my black book of runners. I picked up some very good winners last year.