A far easier way to work out the tempo of a race. Check out the course record for the distance run. Within 2 sec. [12 lengths] was a genuinely run race. Most races now are not genuinely run and for those races that had a blanket finish [heaps of them], you don't even have to check the times as it will have been slowly run for sure. Watch out for horses that had soft wins in slow races, they are nowhere near as good as they looked!