You make some good points Duritz, but disagree with your last statement re sectionals as a measure being pointless.

It's knowing how to use them that's important as in predicting the likely pace in the upcoming race and which horses will be suited by that pace. There is someone (a commercial rival to Pro-Punt) who uses this technique to devastating effect 6 from 7 winners from his recommended bets a week ago and he builds his whole process around pace and the use of sectional times.

Your comments about Lonhro are interesting as analysis on his career performances indicate that he was at his best when he could sit and sprint in races with slowly or even early pace. Only on one or two occasions did he perform well when the pace was on early, one of those being when he beat Sunline in the Caulfield Stakes in near track record time - a race in which he stalked the mare to the turn and then sprinted down the stretch to outgun her.