Paceline selection Sprints
 

How many of you use 7 fr lines when calculating a 6 furlong sprint. I used to but so many times I was bitten in the butt by the 7 furlong line showing up on Top BL/BL but the horse not living up.. I switched about a month ago to only use 5.5 6.0 and 6.5 for 6 furlong sprints and thought all was fine. Midnight Lute threw a monkey wrench into the equation.... Caused me to miss the Super as I had only included him underneath.. Using the 7 fr line I would have had it...

I will use 7f for a 6 of 6.5 - I let the adjustments do their best. I try to let Total Energy be my guide, coupled with a good finish or good move. Perhaps other factors in the adjustment process than distance equalization can sometimes inflate the 7f line: a slow daily track variant (which would speed up the call times) or an inappropriate inter track variant adjustment. Those are the 3 adjustments applied to raw call times (within the same distance structure). Is it possible that some previous observations re 7f lines involved these things?

Ted

If today's race is six furlongs and the horse's last race was at seven furlongs, I'll use the six furlong time and stretch position (as the finish position) providing it's better than the seven furlong finish position.

I do this manually (which is one of the primary reasons I like to use manual input).

Otherwise I'll use the 7f paceline as it is.

Note, I will not adjust the six furlong time at all; no ticks off or any of that business.

Also, I'll only do it for the last paceline as a general rule.