What is the difference between a pace of the race pace figure and all the others?
The PA pace figures are not your regular run of the mill pace figures. They’re designed to help us visualize where the horse was positioned in the herd at the pace call. For example, let’s say the pace velocity rating is Fast 4 and the pace figure is 103. Simply subtract the velocity rating from the pace figure and it will tell you the number of beaten lengths at the pace call. In this case the horse was one length off of the leader at the second call (Par is 100). Easy. We just reverse the process for slow pace races. For example, let’s say the pace was Slow 3 and the pace figure was 93. You simply add the pace of the race velocity rating to the pace figure and you’ll know that the horse was four lengths off the pace at the second call. Yeah but…do they work just out of the box without all the adding and subtracting? They do. You could say, like some investors like to put it, the pace of the race velocity has been discounted in the pace figure, and that’s good. And naturally, a 100
