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Why would you want to measure this EC1?

It's all immaterial given a thoroughbred won't accelerate past a certain point due to the laws of physics which means what must go up must come down and during the length of a race this distribution will be leveled out.

Just by looking at a number on a page won't tell you much I agree but that's where you have to interpret the visual evidence with the quantitative in order to come to a conclusion.

If you have your set up right then you should be able to tell through the standard deviation of the mean where you may be encountering outliers such as fast run races in which you eliminate from your calculations but by theory you'd naturally remove the two slowest.

Take for example; I have the variance of the Derby card (Minus two slowest times; Wrotham Heath & Fiery Lad) set to 4.03 in laymans terms this is Fast, the Standard Deviation is set to 0.91 creating upper and lower bounds of 3.12 & 4.94.

The St Nicholas Abbey race was timed on variance of 2.73 which is essentially an outlier being below 3.12 and to get him with the point of the range you'd have had to add 0.59s to his initial time which means that's been lost somewhere throughout the race.

Can your sectionals show me where this may have been lost? would

<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_Savage" data-source="post: 2394735">Why would you want to measure this EC1?It&#039;s all immaterial given a thoroughbred won&#039;t accelerate past a certain point due to the laws of physics which means what must go up must come down and during the length of a race this distribution will be leveled out.Just by looking at a number on a page won&#039;t tell you much I agree but that&#039;s where you have to interpret the visual evidence with the quantitative in order to come to a conclusion.If you have your set up right then you should be able to tell through the standard deviation of the mean where you may be encountering outliers such as fast run races in which you eliminate from your calculations but by theory you&#039;d naturally remove the two slowest. Take for example; I have the variance of the Derby card (Minus two slowest times; Wrotham Heath &amp; Fiery Lad) set to 4.03 in laymans terms this is&nbsp;&nbsp; Fast, the Standard Deviation is set to 0.91 creating upper and lower bounds of 3.12 &amp; 4.94. The St Nicholas Abbey race was timed on variance of 2.73 which is essentially an outlier being below 3.12 and to get him with the point of the range you&#039;d have had to add 0.59s to his initial time which means that&#039;s been lost somewhere throughout the race.Can your sectionals show me where this may have been lost? would</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bruce_Savage, post: 2394735"] Why would you want to measure this EC1? It's all immaterial given a thoroughbred won't accelerate past a certain point due to the laws of physics which means what must go up must come down and during the length of a race this distribution will be leveled out. Just by looking at a number on a page won't tell you much I agree but that's where you have to interpret the visual evidence with the quantitative in order to come to a conclusion. If you have your set up right then you should be able to tell through the standard deviation of the mean where you may be encountering outliers such as fast run races in which you eliminate from your calculations but by theory you'd naturally remove the two slowest. Take for example; I have the variance of the Derby card (Minus two slowest times; Wrotham Heath & Fiery Lad) set to [B]4.03[/B] in laymans terms this is [B]Fast[/B], the Standard Deviation is set to [B]0.91[/B] creating upper and lower bounds of [B]3.12[/B] & [B]4.94[/B]. The St Nicholas Abbey race was timed on variance of [B]2.73[/B] which is essentially an outlier being below 3.12 and to get him with the point of the range you'd have had to add 0.59s to his initial time which means that's been lost somewhere throughout the race. Can your sectionals show me where this may have been lost? would [/QUOTE]

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