I only posted them like that for ease of visual..i time them initially from fence to fence..but to make sense of it split them into 6 splits usually. For instance..CC v SC is
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| Silviano Conti | 59.20 | 58.80 | 71.70 | 58.90 | 58.20 | 37.80 |
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| Cue Card | 59.95 | 59.40 | 70.43 | 59.20 | 58.95 | 39.26 |
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[TD="width: 66"] F1 – F4 [/TD]
[TD="width: 66"] F4 – F7 [/TD]
[TD="width: 66"] F7 – F10 [/TD]
[TD="width: 66"] F10 – F13 [/TD]
[TD="width: 66"] F13 – F16 [/TD]
[TD="width: 66"] F16 – FIN [/TD]
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[TD="width: 86"] Total [/TD]
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there aren't great slow and stop variations over the twigs in decently run efforts..hosses get into a rythmn and in a race like the KG where they usually go a fair gallop you don't get great variation. Its swings and roundabouts..one race is a little faster or slower in different parts
as in above example..
SC is about 4 lengths quicker f1-f4..
3 lengths quicker f4-f7.
so has gone 7 lengths faster than CC to F7...
f7-f10 CC goes faster by 7 lengths...
so at that point both are using similar petrol overall...
f10-f13 SC goes 1.5 lengths faster...
f13=f16 SC goes 3.5 lengths faster.
so by fence 16..SC has used more petrol..about 5 lengths more after they balanced up at fence 10..then kills CC off by running from f16-fin faster by about 7/8 lengths..after already using more petrol before f16
you can't measure and try to make sense of every inch of the race..but you have a damn sight more insight than most folk by splitting races up like this
you won't get any race having exactly the same pace for every inch..but with 6 splits you can see what has happened...and i can tell you by looking at other KG's..and even handicaps and felthams..that is a slow finish by CC off a pace where he should have been running probably 10 lengths minimum faster from 2 out to even remotely suggest he is as good a stayer at 3 miles as other KG winners
those are only KG winners...then add in they go 2.5m further up hill at the finish at Cheltenham...think about Long Run..who showed himself on the figures to run 20 lengths faster than CC from 2 out in a KG..thats the sort of staying performance you need to display in a KG to get such as the GC stretch out test.
