Speaking of Timeform pace projections, what do you think of Tamarando in the Del Mar Futurity, he has never really caught a fast pace and I think a bunch of sprinters stretching out today will give that to him, his 82 is already competitive and I think he may improve a bit at 7F, 8/1 ML.

Can someone post a link to Doug's blog please?

Thx.

http://timeformusblog.com/

I have been doing a play of the day write-up for Saratoga and a major weekend stakes race or two.

You should start doing Presque Isle too given your posts above. Great job.

Paul

He and Albert's Hope definitely should get a setup in that race.

As should Pebble Beach Baby in Race #2.

Thanks Paul. They make those decisions for me.

You can always post here if you are allowed...

Paul

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I bet her as well

No chance 3rd.

I know they said its really hot, wonder if they over watered the track, it was chalky but two races and not much passing of horses as of yet.

Hope you crushed that.

Good call on Keyboard Courage....12-1.

Yea that was a good result for me, nice way to end the meet.

HELL YES!!!

You rock Doug!!!!!

Doug is awesome but credit should go to Justin Finch who wrote the blog and is the Del Mar blogger for Timeform.

Thanks for the heads up!

Way to go Justin!

Excellent call with Tamarando cashing in on the setup!

Nice!

The blue/red pace lines is a really nice feature with Timeform, you quickly at a glance can measure the setup the horse was working with last race(s).

Many times you see a speed horse with a blue running line and then a loss at 3/5 next out which was predictable, now Jerry Brown would say the horse bounced, but we know thats not reality.

The blue-fractions and red-fractions are definitely a nice feature.

Any pace that is a +15 or higher, the fractions are shown in red.

Any pace that is a -15 or lower, the fractions are displayed in blue.

My personal preference would have been to use +20 or faster for red, and -12 or slower for blue ... but they're currently very close to that right now.

I have actually been much more profitable on the closers in -12 running line than the speed horses. The odds are way better as well.

What I am finding is there are many horses who run well with +20 efforts but do not back them up, more times than not at the cheap tracks.

This an advanced pacefigures type item but I am finding also some correlation between turn time and next out efforts using the PF's.