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Turf racing
To my knowledge Jim Bradshaw did not alter his approach from dirt to turf. As with any race he determined if a horse could go gate to wire. If he eliminated that possibility He sought "the horse closest to the leader positionally, factoring in the pace of race". You had to account for every horses' position at the 1st call with Es and Ps taking up those positions. Finding the horse that showed he could lay behind these runners and through paceline analysis determine which horse could close from that position via a POWER MOVE. Jim bet fast horses but that didn't always mean that the only fast horses were in the lead. Due to early pace and contention, given the projected pace, some horses became fastest at the appropriate time in the race. They showed the ability to pass multiple horses in a single pace segment, 1c -2c and/or 2c -sc. He didn't count moves from the sc to finish as POWER MOVES. In this way, he may determine that based on his pace projection that the likely win contenders would be SP or S horses and he would chose the one that was closest to the leader. I don't think this is understood by most. Jim determined what Running style would win the race and then found the best of those via the Match Up. He was quoted as saying that today's race has been run many times before, the horses' names have just changed today. He was a huge proponent of Pattern Recognition and the use of his subconscious mind to direct him.
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