EL2 - Monmouth June 25

[Ted Craven]

Originally Posted by For The Lead

I'm just curious, the New Pace concept boils down to EARLY vs. LATE, with early NOT meaning the second call. But it doesn't seem to mean early "energy" vs. late "energy", rather, it seems to mean early energy vs. anything else. Am I correct?

Correct, NewPace is not an enquiry into early energy or late energy or a differential between them. Early is identified positionally mostly at the 1st call but also at the 2nd call and rated according to a range of final time speed ratings - over the entire past performance. And you are correct that all those horses not deemed Early are thus deemed Late (or, perhaps we might more correctly say 'Other than Early').

Many of the horses deemed Early by this measurement will clearly never seek or be able to achieve the lead at the 1st call, and thus would not be what we would typically call positionally Early.

Ted