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Rosehill 29/12/07
Race	Winner	Distance	Overall	200 average	First section	Last Section	Winner’s last section & position in run.
R1	Baadi Blasted	1300m	1:17.23	11.88	35.86	24.34	23.94. 2^{nd. 3 off in the straight.}
R2	^Guillotine	1900m	1:56.77	12.29	37.59	23.81	^{23.28. 4th. 2 off in the straight.}
R3	^{Rock Me Baby}	1100m	1:05.12	11.84	35.59	23.47	^{23.22. 3rd. 4 off in the straight.}
R4	^{Canary Islands}	1200m	1:10.31	11.71	35.64	23.15	^{23.15. 2nd. 2 off in the straight.}
R5	^Treat	1100m	1:04.73	11.76	36.69	22.55**	^{22.55. 3rd. 3 off in the straight.}
R6	^{You Raise Me Up}	1100m	1:03.80	11.60**	35.71	22.83	^{22.55. 2nd. 3 off in the straight.}
R7	^{Party Crasher}	1500m	1:29.87	11.98	36.75	23.70	^{23.70. 2nd. 3 off in the straight.}
R8	^{Angel Girl}	1200m	1:10.43	11.73	35.42**	23.34	^{22.92. 5th. 5 off in the straight.}
^{Track: Good}
^{Bias: Handy ++}

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

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.