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Originally Posted by fasthorses
Could you please define the "total energy" you refer to above and share how it's calculated?
Could you also please define what you mean by "the same relative pace"?
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Total energy: the sum of the segmental velocities of the three fractional components of a race.
Same relative paces would be, for example
22.2 45.3
22.1 45.4
22.2 45.2
When an animal cannot keep up with the same relative pace, it's % median rises and it's total goes down and it is telling you it is time for a rest.
TWO other times this happens:
When a baby is stretching out and the median goes up, the colt is telling you (like NoBiz, Stormello and Scat Daddy did) that they cannot go to these newer longer distances at THAT point of their maturity. Bob n John (name?), a co-favorite for the race, as did Hard Spun who could NEVER win over 9 furlongs BOTH showed this coming into the Belmont.
THIRD: a horse IN FORM just meets paces that are significantly faster and this one cannot keep up making the median go up. GOOD horse, too fast a pace to contend with: they try their best and cannot keep up. You see this one all the time