With the recent discussions around leaders and in running positions I started to wonder what the "official" running positions are or what people consider the terms for in running positions are. For example, horses settling 1-2 are leaders, 3-4 are sitting handy, etc.

I would be interested to get people's opinions on this.

HI mattio mine are
leaders= up front
on pace=behind leaders
pace=just off leaders
midfield =middle of the field
midfield/back// towards the back
back = running last

cheers Rick

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Thanks for your input Rick, I am trying to see if I can set up a speed map template in Excel using default positions for each horse based on where they have settled the majority of starts during the past 3 years. Once the defaults are in I can then make any manual adjustments needed.

Hey Mattio,

I've created a spreadsheet in excel using pivot tables and pivot charts for a speed map. I extract the information from **** but I can only use whatever starts are in ****, up to about the last ten starts I think.

The end result is quite good. 4 nice pretty different colored bar graphs showing the horses average position over those last starts at "settle, 1200m, 800m and 400m".

All from barrier 1 outwards.

I only use 3 columns from the "Price" folder and extract the horses name, barrier position and race number. Takes a few minutes to say do one meeting, I really only look at Sydney on Saturdays.

Then I can just click on the next race, take out the scratchings and up it comes.

Paul

Cheers Paul, I still have your email so ill email you later today with a sheet of what I have come up with so far.

HI Mattio I am know good at making spreadsheets or any thing in excel to old to learn it all.

so I just go by what I can pick up from reading the form to see where my horses should be in the running.

cheers Rick

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Hey Mattio,

Sounds good mate, and nice to hear from you again,

Regards, Paul