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Disclaimers
Info taken from official charts. For 8.5 races the charts show the mile time, but I used the stretch call time and lengths back. Its not exactly right but close enough. Hopefully, horses progress to 9 f races where the data at stretch call = mile distance. If in doubt use the 9f race data.
I use the 2 YO info for reference only. If a horse raced quickly at 2 and at 3 has not approached the earlier performance, do not use 2 YO info -- been mislead too many times by this data. Besides the horses are supposed to be improving this time of year and an early time of year regression is not what we should be looking for.
You can monitor improvement from earlier to later races either by improved time or improved position in the races, or both. You can delete horses as they drop out of the Derby picture, but I suggest renaming the file before deleting such horses. You never know if they will show up for the Preakness or Belmont (both Marathons in my opinion).
The 3/4 - 9F column is adjust by lengths back so you can get an idea of who might close the fastest. Be sure to correlate with positions gained that match up with this late effort.
That ought to cover it for now. good luck using this stuff. oh yeah, if I missed any Grade 1 or 2 races or horses from those races, let me know and I will add them in if it looks like they might be competitive, or just as easily, do it yourself.
Bill
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