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Originally Posted by Bill V.
Thank you Pete C
FTL I have a question. The 2 6 and 7 all come out of the same race SA 2-13 race 6
Since according to the tandem manual if the winner of the tandem race is not present in todays race the procedure is to take the best finisher of the tandem
and any horse that finishes within 4 BL of the top finisher as long as the top finisher is a true contender
since we have made the 7 a contender and since the 6 finished 1/4 of a length
behind the best finisher of the tandem(7) should we include the 6 here ?
I would give the 6 a (+) it was in the front half of a 10 horse field
it ran evenly, slowly gaining on the POR to finish beaten only 2 BL
The fact that the 6 has a plus race on the track distance and surface
should help
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I have posted about this a few times before. I’m not a fan of the “tandem concept” and here is the reason.
Every race is unique unto itself. The race you are looking at is the first race of its’ kind and there will never be another one like it.
What happened in some previous race was a result of the horses that were in the race.
1 – the number of early horses
2 – the number of pressers
3 – the number of closers
4 – the number of horses moving up in class
5 – the number of horses dropping down in class
6 – and all the other usual things that make up a horse race.
Is today’s race the same as that previous race? NO! Then why should we trust a horse who ran a bad race, but qualifies on the tandem concept, to get into today’s race off a bad line?
I wrote a thread in the teaching area titled “Bill V goes the extra mile”. Your efforts in handicapping that race will get you more winners and/or less losers than the tandem concept.