TGJB -
When the time for the Champagne was corrected, did you have to go back and change the figures or (since you are primarily making figures off the horses) did it not have much impact? If memory serves, the Beyer was made 9 points faster.
More generally, I know there has been a lot of chatter recently about incorrect times, run-ups, etc. at a lot of tracks. I am curious how much that affects your figuremaking. My guess is that it affects you less than others, but that the impact is less for turf (where figs don\'t fluctuate as much) and greater for younger horses (where there is less established form).
Yeah, the new timing system a lot of tracks switched to had issues. So we tightened up our own timingâ€" making sure the run ups are right, and when our time doesn’t match track time also video timing so we have a tiebreaker to look at.
We did all that for the Champagne, and after that story came out I had someone retime several races that day, not just that one, for comparison. I’m happy with the time we used, which is closer to the original one they published.
But the time is not the issue with doing figures for that race. Two horses fired and the rest did not, which is very unusual for a graded stake, and that gives you limited data to work with. I marked the race for review, but a) there are only two horses that will matter in the review, b) there’s nothing I can do with it before they run back in the BC, and c) if they don’t fire there it could be because of the East-west ship.
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For the price of two webcams and a cheap pc, they could have a backup timing system for final time
Too easy.