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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Huh?
I love Trakus .. but I don't see how it would make final time speed figures irrelevant.
This should be really good....
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Beyer number gives me a number for the race, with no concern for ground coverage or setup. It's a number for the RACE at, in almost all cases, an ABOUT distance. (This could vary by up to 10 lengths or so.) This is fine and is tailored for the available data.
The data just got better, however. Trakus allows for accurate feet-per-second numbers (accurate timing and ground coverage). So, there can be cases, for example, where the winner ran SLOWER than a horse, or horses, behind it. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Trakus allows us to look at the race differently. Think about what you can do with pace. How your approach to setups would change if you actually had concrete data to work with. Think about the time saved watching races. etc.
This is composed on the fly and we can discuss it in more detail if you want.
GP has 8 turf races today.