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The half mile fraction was 47 1/5, a genuine fraction to indicate it was a truly run horse race.
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Can we compare times on turf to times on dirt? Times at Kee (old dirt surface) to times for same distance at Calder?
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Jockeys and trainers observe these races...and a light bulb goes on. You can envision them all collectively thinking "must go as slow as possible, much save as much horse as possible."
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Yes - they found out they didn't have as much horse as they thought
Happens every first Saturday in May, too ....
Cannon made a comment last Polythread, I believe, thought he said his impression training was that horses do
not tire over it as readily as dirt (opposite of what I think I observe)
We're speed-crazy (2-year-old in training sales supports this contention). Look at the times for all distances over the past 100 years, how they improved to a certain extent, then stayed relatively stagnant.
It's not how fast you run, what matters is that you are fastest that race.