asfufh: TGJB, I don\'t get it. What takes so long for Equibase to poll their chart making companies to determine the time they use for each beaten length and then let us handicappers know the results? Asfufh

TGJB: Asfufh-- they did poll them, but the teletimer companies don\'t work for (have contracts with) Equibase, just with the tracks. Equibase has to get the tracks to apply leverage to get anything done. I was given an off-the-record overview, anything else will take time.

asfufh: On 9/21/2005, TGJB said;
\"Asfufh-- they did poll them, but the teletimer companies don\'t work for (have contracts with) Equibase, just with the tracks. Equibase has to get the tracks to apply leverage to get anything done. I was given an off-the-record overview, anything else will take time\"

TG, Anything happening on this? I notice that Aqueduct is now posting beaten lengths for all runners about 5 or 10 minutes after a race is run so the time being assigned to each length must be readily available. I don\'t understand what the big secret is. Asfufh

TGJB: Asfufh-- back in the office after a day at home with a stomach virus (trust me you don\'t want to get this one). Yes it\'s ridiculous, and I\'ll check in with Equibase later this week.

bobphilo: A couple of members of my Yahoo group live in South Africa (not exactly the center of world racing) and yet the charts have the PRECISE times for ALL finishers in 100th\'s of a second. Unfortunately they don\'t take fractional times there (like in Europe) but they seems worlds ahead of us in acuurate finish times of the horses.

Bob