Can someone please explain this?

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by chucklestheclown

Young lady...you are not supposed to understand it because it may not even exist. You are fine doing what you are doing. Trust Me.

It may not exist?

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

It may not exist?

Try putting that poster on ignore.

The concept is really very simple. The speed of the track can change during the day....just as it changes from day to day. There are obvious reasons for this.....rain during the day is the most blatant. A significant change in wind conditions is another. Also, perhaps a track is watered excessively and/or raked differently at some point in the middle of the card. This, too, could change the speed of the course.

However, why only helps explain how it happens. The simple fact is it does happen....and in order to make accurate speed figures this has to be taken into account. There can, and will, be disagreements over the specific usage of split variants but it is logical to understand that they exist.

[chucklestheclown]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Try putting that poster on ignore.

The concept is really very simple. The speed of the track can change during the day....just as it changes from day to day. There are obvious reasons for this.....rain during the day is the most blatant. A significant change in wind conditions is another. Also, perhaps a track is watered excessively and/or raked differently at some point in the middle of the card. This, too, could change the speed of the course.

In other words...it is a fancy term for what you already know...ignore people that use the term and you will be better off.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Try putting that poster on ignore.

The concept is really very simple. The speed of the track can change during the day....just as it changes from day to day. There are obvious reasons for this.....rain during the day is the most blatant. A significant change in wind conditions is another. Also, perhaps a track is watered excessively and/or raked differently at some point in the middle of the card. This, too, could change the speed of the course.

However, why only helps explain how it happens. The simple fact is it does happen....and in order to make accurate speed figures this has to be taken into account. There can, and will, be disagreements over the specific usage of split variants but it is logical to understand that they exist.

Is there a time you can remember the wind being a particularly significant factor in a finish? I've heard of headwinds obviously, and once I saw video of an umbrella popping loose from a picnic area and flying down the track, but I mean something more like gusts that knocked a horse off balance or made it look like they were running into a wall on the way down the stretch. Sometimes wind can move your car while you're driving, but I didn't know if they even tried to run races when it got to be like that.