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David Punshon . I believe the easiest way is to assign a figure to each particular run style. For example let's say that we was just going to use the three run styles that are Led, Mid Division and Held up (Obviously there are more types of running styles but let's just use these three to begin with). Horses that led a race could be assigned 3 points, horses that were in mid division 2 points and those that were held up 1 point. Using the horses last five or six runs we can start to see if there is likely to be lots of pace or not.
To take this a step further and this is what
Horseplayer does fantastically well with is that he then starts to look at the number of runners in those previous races, how fast the race was run and possibly the class (But don't quote me on that one). So for example if in an eight runner field we have two horses that each have a points score of 18 we can then assign further points to this score. Horse A has led all of his races but the highest amount of runners in his fields were only 8, whilst horse B has led a race with 14 runners in.
I'm not an expert on pace analysis but is something I find very interesting. Since I have started to assess the likely pace of the race i'm more aware of pundits on the television stating that there is plenty of front runners in this race and therefore a blistering pace should be expected but often it's not the case due to the above. Have a look at this article and see if it helps http://www.racingtrends.co.uk/racing/horse-racing-pace-figures/
Cheers
HFC
David Punshon . I believe the easiest way is to assign a figure to each particular run style. For example let's say that we was just going to use the three run styles that are Led, Mid Division and Held up (Obviously there are more types of running styles but let's just use these three to begin with). Horses that led a race could be assigned 3 points, horses that were in mid division 2 points and those that were held up 1 point. Using the horses last five or six runs we can start to see if there is likely to be lots of pace or not. To take this a step further and this is what
Horseplayer does fantastically well with is that he then starts to look at the number of runners in those previous races, how fast the race was run and possibly the class (But don't quote me on that one). So for example if in an eight runner field we have two horses that each have a points score of 18 we can then assign further points to this score. Horse A has led all of his races but the highest amount of runners in his fields were only 8, whilst horse B has led a race with 14 runners in. I'm not an expert on pace analysis but is something I find very interesting. Since I have started to assess the likely pace of the race i'm more aware of pundits on the television stating that there is plenty of front runners in this race and therefore a blistering pace should be expected but often it's not the case due to the above. Have a look at this article and see if it helps http://www.racingtrends.co.uk/racing/horse-racing-pace-figures/
Cheers
HFC
