It's about time to consider reforming the way our races are timed

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by outofthebox

Is there a longer run up than that of CD 6f start?

It's one of the longest for sure!

Trinniberg and Secret Circle hooked up through a 20 4/5 opening quarter there in the BC Juvie Sprint. They have like 200ft of run-up sometimes at that distance.

Here are the fractions for Black Caviar in a six furlong race over in Australia:

Black Caviar: 13.75, 10.65, 10.30, 10.27, 10.65, 11.75 Final time of 1:07.36

The first quarter was just 24.40 seconds, obviously because they time races from a dead stand-still start and not because 'paces are slow over there'

Obviously, the reason why you have horses running furlongs in 9 3/5 seconds at 2yo sales is because they get huge run-up and they've accelerated to max speed by the time they hit the pole that starts timing.

Still, I would say the difference between a stand-still start and 10ft of run-up is probably a lot greater than 50ft of run-up vs 120ft.

If we started timing races the sensible and logical way in this country ... you would see half the grandstand befuddled by the fractions.