[lsosa54]

The 6.40/6.41 don't make much of a difference (horse 1 and 2). 6.5f, which is horse 3, does make a 2 pt. difference in total energy with a manual adjustment of zero and NOT using the auto projector.

The 1 adjust brings them closer together and the 2 adjust, which I did not show, would equalize the total energies.

Bottom line, I guess you could use 6.40/6.41 or 6.5 for the distance of the paceline, just be consistent. If you're using pacelines other than 6.5 turf in the same race to evaluate contenders, you'll need the 2 adjust anyway.

RDSS does this all automatically.

In my experience, routers that have run a good mile final time and have shown good early speed and early positioning, can win down the hill sometimes at very nice mutuels. I would probably extend this to 8.5f as well - 9f pacelines start to get dicey. Obviously, they need to have acceptable form and shown they can compete at the class level.

Barry Abrams, a SoCal trainer that is probably known more for claiming races and bringing a horse back in 4 days than his turf prowess, has done this on a couple of occasions at monster mutuels, typically for one of his owners, Madeline Auerbach, and he sometimes has an ownership interest in the horse as well. Mrs. Auerbach owns the sire Unusual Heat and is on the TOC Board.

In any case, no matter the trainer or owner, this angle is always worth a look.
Keep in mind that it ALWAYS starts with the horse.