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Originally Posted by King Glorious

I read in the charts that the run-up for the race is 64 feet. A few questions:

1. Is that the same as in other races?
2. Is that normal for most tracks?
3. If it's not normal, what is normal?

The fractions - especially the opening quarter - for 6.5f races at Saratoga have come back crazy fast the last several years.

I'm sure run-up has something to do with it.

My pace figures use the half mile fraction as a pace call for sprints.

For a hypothetic that is tremendously simple to follow - lets say you have three dirt sprint races at Saratoga. One at 6fs - one at 6.5fs - and one at 7fs.

Now lets say that the pace for all three is 45.00 for a half mile.

At six furlongs - the 45.00 pacesetter would get a raw fig of 103

At 6.5 furlongs - the 45.00 pacesetter would get a raw fig of 94.75

At 7 furlongs - the 45.00 pacesetter would get a raw fig of 113.5


That means that paces at 6.5 furlongs are 8.25 points (or 0.30 seconds) faster than 6 furlong ones.

And paces at 6.5 furlongs are 18.75 points (or 0.70 seconds) faster than 7 furlong ones.