For The Record

[TGJB]

No. The outer horse will get a better number than the rail horse, the rail horse will get a dead rail mark (though it\'s unlikely we would give out the mark if the horse ran well enough to dead heat for the win). Outside horses get credit for how far they travel relative to those that save ground. But if those were the only two horses that ran that day (to simplify things), and they both run all 5\'s, we would give the outside horse a 5, and the inside horse a 6 with an X.

The point being, on dead rail days the horses that are on the rail get figures that average far worse than usual. The horses that are not on the rail get figures that average the same as usual, because those are the ones we look at when making the figures.

[phil23]

Got it.  Figured I was getting something lost in translation there.  Thanks for clarifying.