PRX use of off track lines in certain circumstances
 

Tim:

I ran into this situation at PRX today in race one. I know you rarely use off track pacelines, but this winner brought up a question for me. Here are the screen shots. first the PPs.

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Originally I used line 5 because it was a fast track. I checked the %med and found that line 2 was the same, so my question is, if the off track line (2) is reasonably close to the fast track line (6), but has a better perceptor rating, would you use it, even though it was from an off track

Thanks,

These shots might have been missed from the above post. PPs, RX screen, etc.


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Hi Bill. Pace line selection is entirely up to the user. For me the trk for r1 was listed as good. Lines 1 & 2 were on a sly sealed race trks. Line 3 had a TV of 39 so wouldn't use it either. So to answer your question no I wouldn't use any of the top 3 unless I had no other choice but that is my preference. You will notice that was the case with #4. All of its' lines were either on all weather or turf except line 5 from Fort Erie on a sly sealed trk with a tv of 32. I bit the bullet and used it since it was on a dirt surface.
Tim.

I wrote a program that weighs various factors, most of which I learned on this board. Not saying I did this well or exactly as others would have done, but just so you'll know where the computer led me, here are the lines the program selected:

#1: 2
#2: 4
#3: 4
#4: 2
#5: 2
#6: 2
#7: 1
#8: 1