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03-24-2014, 05:22 PM
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DRF: Hegarty feature on timing of races
Timing is everything: Correctly timing a race is more complicated than it looks
By Matt Hegarty http://www.drf.com/news/timing-every...cated-it-looks While racetrack veterans often caution clock-watchers that “time only matters in jail,” the final times and internal fractions of races are used as the raw data in the construction of widely used speed figures, pace ratings, and track variants, critical tools for many handicappers (and the livelihood for many past-performance data producers). So, if any part of a race time is incorrect, the error cascades through a long list of calculations designed to give horseplayers accurate metrics to compare performances among horses and tracks, making the recording of both final times and internal fractions incredibly important to the sport’s lifeblood – bettors.
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