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Originally Posted by Storm Cadet
We had this very discussion 2 years ago on our yearly Saratoga trip. We asked the track super and he said rails out or in, the gate is kept within a 10-15 distance each time.
We then tried to calibrate how much extra distance there is added to the race with rails out at different distances from the hedge. It's not that much because its only added distance on the turns they said.
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Basically you are adding:
D * 6.283 to the distance
where D = the distance the rail is out ( 12 or 18 feet in the case of the Mellon course)
so with the rail out 12 feet we add 75 feet to the race or 113 feet for the rail at 18 feet.