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[Anonymous]

Aragorn<br>Aren’t you ignoring the 3rd sectional, the one where WL supposedly bust a gut, run in a time over 5 seconds slower than the next day’s handicap? <br>Also, 10 seconds slower than a lower class race is hugely slow, no matter how you dress it up.

[Aragorn]

Stolen from David Brady on another thread about Aintree:

Edited to add:

Dave Edwards (RP Topspeed) also uses his column to have a go at Aintree officials and the moving of the rails each day without informing punters of any change in distances raced. By his calculations, at face value, Albertas Run’s win on Saturday is 35lb (or half a furlong) superior to Mighty Man’s on the Thursday. While acknowledging that other factors are involved (races were run at different speeds, going etc), he reckons the main reason is officials moving the rails inwards each successive day, thereby making the courses significantly shorter on Saturday when compared to the Thursday.

Did you know about this? Ultimately i’m not knocking timing, sectionals or any of that kind of thing but sometimes you have to trust your own judgement. I don’t know for sure whether the above is true but I felt slightly uncomfortable that a handicapper would have won a graded race by half a furlong or even ten lengths had he run in the long distance hurdle.

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