Sorry O Outlander I somehow missed this post, probably busy watching rhe mighty blades, takes a bit of doing.T tacker sectional imo have some merit, I don't think they are the golden goose, currently you have sectional for all uk racing but not in a format that is useable , so unless you want to pay timeform the equivalent of a medium sized counties GDP for their hand timed sectionals then it's just not worth bothering looking at sectionals, it's time consuming enough keeping of top of form/speed when we have downloadable results for that in a format we can use.
Manually looking into every sectional, I calculate there would need to be approx 15000 hours in a day for it to be viable.
I know you are a big fan of sectionals, I would make a suggestion The Hare is happy providing Hong Kong data on his Hong Kong speed figures thread, it is the only data I've seen that has sectionals, only 2 meetings a week might be something you could get into and study.
It's still not an easy game even with all the facts and figures , I backed a horse in Hong Kong a few weeks ago I thought was a racing certainly, it came third after leading into the final furlong, it ran again today and won by half the track over the same CD.
I thought it was a cert again but didn't bother this time because I'm an idiot(and the price went down to only evens).
I have found that even when I'm right about a horse if I put money on them they wil find a way to lose, I only ever seem to win at the Cheltenham Festival the rest of the year I'm hopeless.
Forgot to mention the 2 horses that beat that horse a few weeks ago where left miles behind eating his dust today, the horse is so far superior to them that is just beggars belief how it didn't win when my money was down, it's just unfathomable and can only be the weight of my money.
Again my purpose here wasn't to try and convince anyone to incorperate sectionals into their speed figures, 15000 hours a day, that's a long day.
Mention was made of DUBAI WARRIOR so that's why i got involved given we had discussed it before, in my opinion with that race is that BANGKOK had the formbook on his side, it appears that the speed figures backed up the form ( i think AustinDillon75 is correct ) but the sectionals posed a problem and it was you that then came up with the theory of how the race might be run, slower than BANGKOK needed and dettori got all the praise that day.
For what it's worth i only need to give a cursory glance to sectionals as part of a rather simplistic approach to form reading when i feel it worthwhile but the speed figures in and around that little jigsaw involving a few horses in a few races.
All done with now lads.