[For The Lead]

Originally Posted by DaveEdwards

FTL (sorry, I keep calling you FLT, it's an abbreviation from my work.....)

I've been reading some of the middle chapter's from Tom Brohamer's book and have the answers I needed. Obviously if there is anything you'd like to add I'd be more than happy to read it!

I'll admit that maintaining a profile isn't something I've been doing, but reading MPH has made me think back to a few results that just didn't go my way & I couldn't fathom out why. It's now as clear as day.

I'm going to go with Penn & TUP I think for now. Timewise, both fit reasonably well for me, well not too late at Penn, but weekends is good.

Thanks.

No problem. Most people refer to me as FTL. ("For The Lead" is a lot to type all the time lol).

Although I have both running position and beaten lengths at each call in my database, I consider position more important than beaten lengths, but I do understand where you’re headed and I’m not saying you’re wrong. I don’t keep any information with regard to “fighting” as you may mean it, but I have created my own method of evaluating early pace scenarios, which are stored in my database.

I recently wrote in another thread that many times, in a field where there are mostly early horses, one of the early horses will end up being a dominant early horse. This leaves the remaining early types in a position of chasing, which is something they don’t like to do. It basically eliminates them from the race. Now it doesn’t work out this way every time, but it does happen often.

Glad to hear you found some helpful information in Brohamer's book.

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas!