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We should have a thread on horses that should be followed on the basis of sectionals (possibly this one?).

I tend to use sectionals on a relative rather than absolute basis. That is, I'd rather use them to identify horses that have run well against a pace bias than assign each horse a revised speedfigure adjusted for sectionals. I just don't have enough time to create sectional pars for each track and class (which I'm convinced you need).*

*Question for EC: I haven't done anything in-depth, but do you really think the sectional % pars for sprints at say Wolverhampton and Lingfield should be the same? From my experience last winter (blame the long nights...) timing both, they are surprisingly far apart. 100% at Lingfield was a soundly-run race, whereas at Wolves it was fairly steadily-run affair I found.

[QUOTE="trackside528, post: 2442591, member: 65311"] We should have a thread on horses that should be followed on the basis of sectionals (possibly this one?). I tend to use sectionals on a relative rather than absolute basis. That is, I'd rather use them to identify horses that have run well against a pace bias than assign each horse a revised speedfigure adjusted for sectionals. I just don't have enough time to create sectional pars for each track and class (which I'm convinced you need).* *Question for EC: I haven't done anything in-depth, but do you really think the sectional % pars for sprints at say Wolverhampton and Lingfield should be the same? From my experience last winter (blame the long nights...) timing both, they are surprisingly far apart. 100% at Lingfield was a soundly-run race, whereas at Wolves it was fairly steadily-run affair I found. [/QUOTE]

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