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More on Frankel, including from a sectional point of view: http://betting.betfair.com/horse-racing/bloggers/simon-rowlands/simon-rowlands-frankel-set-to-emulate-legendary-namesak-290910.html

The time margin represented by an official "length" on the Flat is 1/6 sec on good going or quicker, 1/5 sec on soft, good to soft in places, or slower, and 2/11 sec for anything in between (which is, I believe, the conversion in this instance). This applies across all distances. Don't shoot...

Handicap performances ARE the correct way of comparing all manner of measures in racing, as handicaps (in theory at least) normalise for differences in ability. The "unpredictability factor" at courses in non-handicaps is likely to tell you at least as much about the nature of the races...

Thank you for indeed making yourself a bit more intelligible, richard. Your point about the Levy Board is a fair one. You do not address the fact that "Racing United" claims to speak on behalf of racing - all of it, not just the narrow constituency that has put its weight behind this initiative...

Ah, you are becoming ever so slightly more intelligible at last. No, I am not "having a bad run". I am having a good run. As a winning punter I pay a lot of money in commission. It is very kind of you to take such an interest in my personal welfare. I have supported past punters'...

And why is there not a peep, not a squeakette? Firstly, BECAUSE PUNTERS DO NOT HAVE A VOICE! The attempts at getting punters' groups off the ground have been stymied by people at the BHA (I know this from personal experience). There is not much point in having a punters' group if those in power...

I did not know of that group, and I agree with your final sentence. I made the suggestion in print some years ago that punters are effectively like consumers and should be treated with the same kind of consideration. The fact that consumers cannot be expected to organise themselves is not given...

That is the start of their own press release, not a misquote from a lazy journalist. And it has been written in that way to give the impression that "racing" is "united" and has "launched a campaign", a total misrepresentation which the details stuck much later in the release do not offset.

Again, I have to point out that what I am objecting to is "Racing United" appearing from nowhere and claiming to speak on behalf of all of us, despite having no mandate to do that, not necessarily the thrust of what they are trying to achieve. Their intentions may well be benign, but I do not...

Indeed they are not. A point that was not lost on me either.

It is not anything to do with "who is more important?" It is entirely to do with whether a group of individuals representing only a portion of racing's constituency is entitled to speak on behalf of the whole of racing. They are not. If the powers that be wished racing to speak with one voice...

From today's ROA newsletter: RACING UNITES TO SECURE FAIR RETURN FROM BETTING Racing has launched a campaign calling on the Government and the Levy Board to secure a fair return from the betting industry, after an unacceptable fall in the funding of the sport. The Racing United: Campaign...

I have had a few false starts along the way, mostly to do with trying to get others involved to share the at-times Herculean workload of taking hand-held sectionals, but am currently going it alone and concentrating on a smaller number of tracks. And, yes, it is proving to be worth the effort. :)

I have Sans Frontieres running about 36.2 sec from the 3f marker. It does not specifically matter whether the 3f marker is AT the 3f point, providing it does not move and comparisons can be made between races and between meetings, based on the assumption that it IS 3f out. (T*d*100)/(t*D)...

It was. Final 3f for winner was about 36.2 sec, which translates to a closing sectional speed of around 110% of average race speed. Much higher than would usually be the case. Under those circumstances he is a damn good horse. I think he has a serious chance in the Melbourne Cup providing that...

A few quotes from today's Racing Post: Findlay "...don't for one minute think I haven't got the full support of the general public" (the clear evidence here and elsewhere is that he is wrong) "I will not have my horses run in my colours with Coward and Roy at the helm" (which is very different...

His run in with the law at the Derby Awards in 2008 (I think it was)? Sorry, but I can't see it.

My views on cannabis are probably similar to yours, krizon. Nonetheless, if I were to be nicked having a toke in central London I would not claim that the police were "bang out of order" (for ultimately letting me off). And if I were the editor of a racing paper I would imagine a leading...

P1ssed journos, tbf.....

Yes. Somewhat oddly, it did not get a mention in racing's trade paper, despite the place being rammed to the rafters with journos.