www.irishgreyhoundracing.info

<>

Calculating time from sprints to middle and long distances takes some reckoning mostly
because very few dogs are capable of maintaining the same pace over difffent distances.

While a sprinter will maintain its speed for most of the distance - lots of middle distance dogs start to slow from the 3rd & 4th bends.

Whereas lots of stayers are slower in the 1st half of race and speed up in the 2rd half of race.

My calculations are to give you a rough idea what your dog should do so therefore if your dog does worse than these figures he does'nt stay and you should run it over a shorter distance.

If it does better than these figures that is a sign to try it over a longer distance till you get the right distance for the dog.

You simply add the time in the last column to the time that you have calculated for your dog.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Any problems e-mail me in slot below.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To continue with calculating - Look at the 2rd column to get your dogs
nearest time for 525 yards and then columns 4 for 550 yards - 5 for 575 yards and 6 for 600 yards estimated time for those distances that is if your dog will stay the extra distance. This worked quite well on 04/01/2009 when top dogs ran over 575 yards for example 3 dogs last winning times at Shelbourne over 525 yards were

Kildallon Maid =28.61 nearest to that 28.60 so table time for 575 is 31.32 plus the 0.01=31.33 plus pace drop which on the other chart is 0.05 for each 25 yards making 0.10 - add to 31.33 and you have 31.43 and she did 31.39 so calculation was only 0.04 out for the estimated time.

Tip and Tin =28.86 nearest time 28.90 = 31.65 minus the 0.04=31.61 plus 0.05 twice =0.10 giving you 31.71 which was bang on as he did 31.71

Blackstone Gene =28.53 nearest time = 28.50 =31.21 at 575 so we have 31.21 plus 0.03 =31.24 plus 2 at 0.05=0.10 giving 31.34 and the dog did 31.27 only 0.07 out.
This table will save you a lot of time working out what your dog should do over the extra distances.