18th February 2007, 02:18 PM
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Not to confuse the issue further, but using that as a benchmark is fine and fairly accurate when measuring the distance between horses in the same race.
When you start to hypothesize about one race being 6 lengths better than the other, is when it all comes unravelled.
Every week the commentators ramble on about this winner being a second or half a second quicker than the previous. The only problem with that theory is that they ran at quite a different pace.
Invariably to upset the applecart further, you can back the odds on favourite next time because it had the quickest time of the day, and be left wondering why it struggled to run a place, while the horse that ran a slower time comes out and blitzes the field at 3/1.
You'd be a very rich man if you layed the horse with the fastest race time next time out.
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