Theoretical questions are allowed to have some leeway...

The point is this. What I was trying to discover was people's thoughts on lengths beaten as opposed to margins. Basically, do people place more emphasis on one or the other or equally. Like say you were going to have a bet today in South Africa and you didn't know the horses, but you saw a two horse race where both horses had had one start in a maiden, right? Both started about 5/1 first start, one ran second beaten 5 lengths the other ran 6th beaten four lengths. Which would you consider better.

Duritz.