What are Moss Pace Figure Values at various distances?
1 length equals: 3.3 points at 2F 1.6 points at 4F 1.3 points at 5F 1.0 points at 6F 0.8 points at 7F 0.75 points at 1M 0.7 points at 1 1/16M 0.65 points at 1 1/8M Q: How can you have an identical pace number for a $10,000 claimer versus a Stakes horse? Shouldn’t the final race times give you a major difference in the Pace numbers based on the better final times of the leaders of the Stakes race? A: These pace figures are based strictly on the same principles as Beyer Speed Figures. In Beyer Speed Figures, if a $10,000 claiming race runs faster than a stakes race and there are no mitigating circumstance such as a change in track-surface speed then the $10,000 claimers get a high figure. In pace figures, there are MANY times in which lower-class horses will run at a faster early pace than higher-class horses. Almost any good frontrunning $10,000 claimer can run 6F fractions of 22.1 and :45, but occasionally stakes races with short fields will go slower than that. Then good horses finish
