29th August 2013, 11:48 AM
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LG, the only one of those listed that are rejected are those that "finish well back".
However, I can't really put it into a statistical formula, it's more like when I see it, it hits me, it stands out. I might watch 16 races and only one or two will stand out.
The first thing I look for is stride length, then abiility to maintain that stride length for a period, and then the actual speed.
http://www.racingnetwork.com.au/Vis...mediaid=1016966
Here is Surpass, watch the race a couple of times, watch how he drifts back shuffled all the way back to third last, and then he makes a slow move, but when the jockey asks for an effort, he unleashes a withering stride and maintains it right to the judge and finishes off running three times the speed of anything else in the race. |