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The way the fulcrum was taught by Michael and Bert Mayne at several workshops in Albany ( miss those so much!) was to set up a race, using a logical pace time. After setting the fulcrum, they did form cycle analysis on races within +/- 2/5s of the fulcrum. Races that were faster were excused. That was part of the "wayback" machine.....a horse who met the fulcrum several liknes back and had been facing faster times recently. And the paceline of the fulcrum was not always the line you would use for that horse. It was a starting point. The last line was used to keep it recent, therefore more likely to be useful today.
The fulcrum was not a rating or a bet. It was a tool to use for selecting contenders and pacelines. Mike did advise to always check the fulcrum horse for its ability to wire the field and that enough of them did win regularly to make it worthwhile, but that was the extent of it. Like the energizer in Energy!
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