Trackmaster SR Ranges

[lsosa54]

For folks using the TM download, does anyone use SR ranges to eliminate contenders or is it dangerous to do so? Once pacelines have been selected, let's say you've got 6 horses left after eliminations based on TE top 5 and ties and/or Primary Line Score rankings. The SR's or the remaining entries are 90,89,89,87,83,82.

Would you feel comfortable in further eliminating the 83 and 82 and getting the BL/BL now down to 4, or in folk's experience, does it come back to haunt you?

[Ted Craven]

In this example, before eliminating the 82, I'd check the E/L graph to see if it's energy disbursement style favoured today's track and distance (e.g. wild early on a track which favoured it), of if it was the Lone E or Lone L for counter-energy (Place).

If you've got top 5 Total Energy and ties, I think the work of the SR's is done (e.g. as a paceline selector if you use Val). Total Energy is a much more nuanced rating of total ability than SR, as TE is a composite of the 3 race fractions, where SR is only a measure of final time.

Ted