[Houndog]

You might wonder why I am devoting so much time on a race in which the winner paid $8.00. First of all I played the favorite Bright Hall to win and he finished a badly beaten 3rd. Secondly, this illustrates how sensitive Energy is to proper paceline selection. I selected Bright Hall's 4th line back which is more indicative of his typical running style. This makes the race much closer, but these are the calls we must make. If you are a 2 horse bettor you get the winner and the 3rd horse. If you are a one horse bettor it is more problematic. The winner American Man is 3-1 and Bright Hall is 1.80-1.

With the revised pacelines AMVOO (I entered 2 lines for this horse). If you were not following this post from the beginning Richie suggested I try entering a paceline for this horse comprised of American's Man 1st call timing at MNR 7 races back (46.4) and the 2nd and final call of his last race, still using the BL's of the MNR race 1.5-0-0-0. This is an advanced Match-Up procedure that goes beyond the 5 step approach. I am not trying to teach this advanced procedure, but this is something Richie had me try using Energy. What I am really trying to show is how Energy is very dependent on proper contender and paceline selection. (As is the Match-Up).

Anyhow now with the UXR screen we see that one of the pacelines for American Man shows him to be the 0.00 EMUV horse and second in UXR. (Lower numbers are better.) The variegate says sustained.