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McNae has just preview the Pretty Polly using Race IQ data. His figures show that Kalpana has recorded a higher top speed, a faster individual furlong and a better Finishing Speed Percentage than Whirl, establishing her as the faster filly.
That is useful information and should be how Race IQ is deployed: as a tool when previewing races. Where it could be improved is by taking those figures and adjusting them for weight carried (after all, Kalpana has to give her younger rival 12lbs today), going, etc.
It’s not Race IQ per se that’s the issue: it’s how RTV use it, and McNae’s paroxysms of delight whenever a half decent figure comes in after a race.
Is it really necessary to over analyse a maiden where a 4/9 chance won?
McNaes’s verdict: Dorset is “pretty useful”.
5/6 each of two.
No, not today’s Wimbledon final, but the odds I’m offering in a match bet on who can prattle on the longest without pausing for breath out of Fran Berry and Lydia Hislop.
Mark Howard when previewing The Magnet Cup yesterday said the big negative against Archivist were the stats. No three year old had won the race in the last 15 years although he did quietly add that only 2 had tried. How many was he expecting to have won it? 4 or 5? Although Wigmore Hall did win it as a 3 year old 15 years ago, will let him off for that one though.
If I never see Cornelius Lysaght on Luck on Sunday again, I will be a very happy man.
The bloke could bloviate for Blighty; it’s a miracle that any of the other guests even managed to get a word in edgeways. At one point, Rishi Persad (filling in for Nick Luck today) asked Jim Boyle a question, and Lysaght answered before poor Jim even had a chance to open his mouth.The rolled-eyes expression of Mr Boyle encapsulated the moment perfectly.
Angus and his IQ Data told us that Field of Gold still ran well and you needed a low number in the Stewards Cup, as did Page Fuller.
He never comes back after the event to tell how wrong he and his IQ Data have been, he just ploughs on with it day after day as though it is the Golden Highway.
Just how profitable is all this data?
Agree about Cornelius, thought he was very ignorant interrupting all the time. Maybe Nick Luck wouldn’t have allowed him to get away with it.“What’s happened to the Premier Racedays and no other meetings between 2 and 4? Typical of the way the sport is run.
Can’t forget when Racing UK went split screen with the climax of The Ebor and the start of a selling hurdle at Cartmel one year.
Racing TV managed to improve on that today by going the entire Ebor split screen with a micky mouse hurdle at Killarney.”
Racing TV managed to get the nap up again today, the entire Ebor in split screen, this time with a mediocre beginners chase at Killarney. You can’t see what’s happening in either race properly. At least they managed to get the climax of the beginners chase in full screen. Pathetic!
Perfect illustration of the clowns that plan race times at BHA and HRI with scheduling Killarney at 3.40 and Ebor at 3.35.York was never going to be off on time,also why all the afternoon meetings on RTV with nothing on SSR?
Because SSR isn’t contracted to Killarney or York.
But “choice” is in the “consumer”‘s best interests.
Apparently.
It must be noted that Racing TV went split screen for The Champion Stakes with a micky mouse hurdle at Limerick.
Racing TV was originally set up as Racing UK for the benefit of British racing, that’s what it should be covering.In fairness to the BHA,they did create a window ahead of The Champion Stakes only for Irish racing to come along and fill it.
Saturday was Ascots annual reminder of why they went to SSRNot being privy to the individual media rights contracts, we can only assume that RTV and SSR are committed to showing all racing live, irrespective of the relative importance of the races concerned. It just reinforces the widely held view that there is too much racing.
The brief period where the BHA and HRI attempted to co-operate and delay races to avoid clashes seems to have been quietly abandoned.
At least with RTV we still have the option of watching full replays after racing, something SSR abandoned a few years ago.
SSR have improved to a degree and do not now go split screen when there are clashes between UK racing and the dire Honk Kong betting fodder, with the latter shown as a recording. However, they do still go split screen when there are clashes with French pattern races.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
In case not aware, you can still watch full SSR replays on their digital platform https://www.attheraces.com/replay. Hope useful….
Haven’t we been lucky this week, with The Captain in the studio on all three days to tell us about the RaceIQ data. At least there was usually a race to watch on SSR instead.
And is Lydia now too grand to read the Road To Cheltenham emails? Hence the appointment of a “social secretary” who looks young enough to still be at school.
A very average evening card at Kempton tonight – but RTV deems it necessary to have 6 pundits on duty.
“A very average evening card at Kempton tonight – but RTV deems it necessary to have 6 pundits on duty. :wacko:”
Dire stuff from them – And they keep telling us “All profits go back to horse racing”
The guy in the corner giving all the numbers out is enough to bore anyone to tears.
As someone said the other day, far too many ex jockeys on racing coverage on tv.
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