curious

And I'm sure Waller knows that

She ran her final 600m in 32.33 seconds

Thommo will dismiss that because it was in the fast lane. Add .5 seconds? Or have you already got that allowed for in your back in class programme?

Won like an even money shot!

And one of the 4 with no claim on a heavy 11. What on earth is going on?

How stupid can you get, administering an alkalinising agent within 24 hours of a race. Of course they get away with it here.

Yeahhh...Thommo will be in raptures getting some high class black type form to work off. Any maideners in it?

Oh I see. So the announcement about the announcement was cancelled. Presumably the guvmint will be launching a working group to investigate?

I just don't see how he can be so thick. Nobody agrees with him except maybe a bunch of other losing punters out there that haven't given this much thought.

Read that again Thommo, along with the previous bit from mardigras that I highlighted for you since you don't understand the actual numbers.

An announcement about an announcement maybe?

So, did anything happen at 11 a.m.?

You'll have to say a bit more. You've lost me. The question was about the evidence that German horses bleed less than those in the rest of the world. Please point us to the evidence.

OK, so yur blank again on the evidence front. No surprise.

No. It used to a while back but I think CS stuffed it when he was still there and it hasn't been resurrected.

That's weird. It's now working The site page update without refreshing as I have been having to do.

Thanks. That's helpful. I'll check.

Is there some reason why this is no longer happening ...something on my end?

They'll be the same statistics that show that horses with blinkers on first time generate a greater ROI than those without, or similarly those dropping back from black type races. That is, there are none. It's another hunch being fraudulently promoted by the resident fraudster.

Just read this bit of what mardigras wrote Thommo since you don't seem to understand the rest.

Btw, overall time is a significant factor in assessing performance for me, the most significant, but it's not the only one.

Yep. I invest next to nothing on NZ racing except for the odd day out. No issues with the variables between the straight 6 and HQ. What I can't figure out is the ability of horses to handle tracks that are a Fast 2 down the back, like my cow paddock and a dead 4 round the turn and a decent Good 3 in the straight on the outside fence and a Slow 7 on the rail. I know some can do it but at this stage it's beyond me. I'd rather race and bet where there are consistent surfaces.

Each to their own and whatever works for you MM. I don't have much time for sectional times though I know successful punters who do. All the races I've seen were won by the horse that went the fastest from the starting gate to the finish line. As to the other factors you mention, I consider them wind noise. A multitude of variables can affect race times of course but I would argue they can all be accounted for by the difference between expected time and actual time, although variables such as tempo mean that a single race is not necessarily a good arbiter of that.

Obviously you had a day off yesterday while the primary teachers were on strike. Why don't you just download a free random number generator app and run it twice for each race. First time limit it by field size to come up with your selection. Second time make it 0 or 1 to determine whether you should add 20% or not. You'd probably be better off and also save a lot of time.

What's got me flummoxed is that he says that all punters know about "universal times for each class" but how could he calculate those (for ANZ racing) when he doesn't know how to generate a variant that allows comparison of a straight six at Trentham with the same distance at Ellerslie, and goes further by saying you can't do that. Maybe, by "universal times for each class", he's referring to the average amount of time it takes him to complete his remedial maths and reading classes?