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Actually, you get faster... much faster.
In the very late '80s, I was playing full time. I was in a Reno racebook every morning at 6:30am, getting ready for first post, which was like 9am (NYRA). I came home at 10:30 every night after LGA finished.
In between I made feet-per-second ratings using a calculator and wrote them by hand, one race to a page. Each race had 23 factors that I modeled. I literally played every non-maiden race at about 15 tracks.
When I switched to "point ratings" rather than velocity numbers my work load diminished greatly.
My point is, that I could do speed ratings by hand, every line for every horse in about 4-5 minutes. You just get faster and faster with practice.
Dave
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