Haven't used these particular figures yet but have found the equibase pace figures to be incredibly useful in the past. They were especially useful on the old Keeneland course where you needed to be on the lead. There were lots of races where you'd find a horse that had been on the lead three straight races but with very poor pace figures and another horse that had been 2nd or 3rd in their last three with much higher pace figures. Sure enough the horse that had been to the lead three races in a row would get hammered while my horse woud get ignored and when they broke my horse would break on top. Anyone not using pace figures would be screaming at the idiot jockey for not getting their horse to break on top. Simple pace figures would have made it obvious that their horse wasn't fast enough to break on top in that race. So I think it would be foolish for anyone to discount them from their capping especially since I imagine pace figures by Randy Moss will blow away equibase's pace figures.
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