[Ted Craven]

Static, though you can edit them in RDSS.

Check a Follow Up on the topic of Par Gaps (issues late 60s early 70s?). They are not PARS per se (like Brohamer's $10,000 Class pars, or publicly available par times), rather they form the basis of a system in the later Methodology to determine gaps or differentials between paceline segments from different tracks and distances so that they could all be equalized. Some people don't like the resulting Pace of Race times on the Adjusted screen (and thus resulting velocities, compounded factors and oddslines) and want to tinker with them (i.e. 'too fast/slow for this track/distance', etc). But they forget that after all the projections and adjustments are made, we're not running the race at say, Parx, or Oaklawn, anymore, rather we're running all races on a hypothetical equalized/normalized/adjusted track we've come to call 'Sartin Downs'. Any changes one makes to the base 'pars' by distance and surface affect the resulting gaps/differentials equally for all pacelines for all horses in the race, so it really doesn't matter if you bump the 2nd call time here by 2 tenths, or lower the final time there by whatever increment: it affects everyone equally. If Adjusted call times offend the eye, well, there's other software which works differently.

The whole system was created (in my view) to implement the Matchup based on data obtainable from the current race PPs (and supplied TrackMaster inter-track and daily-track adjustments). Sartin never really endorsed the concept of Par Time charts, and was always a little fuzzy if I recall about just how those Par Gaps worked (intentionally, I presume), and so am I. But they work/ed.

Ted