In Run Positions
 

With the recent discussions around leaders and in running positions I started to wonder what the "official" running positions are or what people consider the terms for in running positions are. For example, horses settling 1-2 are leaders, 3-4 are sitting handy, etc.

I would be interested to get people's opinions on this.

HI mattio mine are
leaders= up front
on pace=behind leaders
pace=just off leaders
midfield =middle of the field
midfield/back// towards the back
back = running last

cheers Rick

:D

Thanks for your input Rick, I am trying to see if I can set up a speed map template in Excel using default positions for each horse based on where they have settled the majority of starts during the past 3 years. Once the defaults are in I can then make any manual adjustments needed.

Hey Mattio,

I've created a spreadsheet in excel using pivot tables and pivot charts for a speed map. I extract the information from **** but I can only use whatever starts are in ****, up to about the last ten starts I think.

The end result is quite good. 4 nice pretty different colored bar graphs showing the horses average position over those last starts at "settle, 1200m, 800m and 400m".

All from barrier 1 outwards.

I only use 3 columns from the "Price" folder and extract the horses name, barrier position and race number. Takes a few minutes to say do one meeting, I really only look at Sydney on Saturdays.

Then I can just click on the next race, take out the scratchings and up it comes.

Paul

Cheers Paul, I still have your email so ill email you later today with a sheet of what I have come up with so far.

HI Mattio I am know good at making spreadsheets or any thing in excel to old to learn it all.

so I just go by what I can pick up from reading the form to see where my horses should be in the running.

cheers Rick

Hey Mattio,

Sounds good mate, and nice to hear from you again,

Regards, Paul