COMPUTAFORM 400-FINISH TIMES?????

When I started out,I made this my bread and butter.My holy grail...coz I thought the horse that ran the fastest home will always be either the winner or close to it.Since I started doing HK racing I've learned a lot about sectional timing. Enough to realise that there MUST BE something wrong with our precious 400-finish times! On the 17th of this month...there was a race run over 1600m at turffontein inside....

The 400-F times for the 1st 3 past the post was 21.25, 21.32 and 21.91! These are average horses running like Frankel in his prime? There is many a reasons I know of that this can be faulty!!! So I was wondering....HOW ACCURATE ARE THESE TIMES???? Does anybody know???? Also,the times from the computaform and photoforms differ a lot of times,so which 1 is correct? TIA

I believe the times reflected are guesswork at worst and extrapolations at best - not worth the space it takes up in the Computaform.....

Hi h, does HK sectional timing give printouts of their information?

Frodo wrote: I believe the times reflected are guesswork at worst and extrapolations at best - not worth the space it takes up in the Computaform.....

Correct ....they are not measured times but some kind of formula applied to facts to estimate 400-fin times.-this has been posted a number of times!
It will surely rectify if/when sectional timing is actually introduced.
(On that score ,has it all died a natural death again?)

Bob Brogan wrote: Hi h, does HK sectional timing give printouts of their information?

Bob,the HK form on TAB includes 400-fin times FROM SECTIONAL TIMING so some of it is there!

rob faux wrote:

Bob Brogan wrote: Hi h, does HK sectional timing give printouts of their information?

Bob,the HK form on TAB includes 400-fin times FROM SECTIONAL TIMING so some of it is there!

Thanks Rob, what I was meaning was does every sectional get released to the public , 20 runners say 4 sectionals per horse per race ?

Bob Brogan wrote:

rob faux wrote:

Bob Brogan wrote: Hi h, does HK sectional timing give printouts of their information?

Bob,the HK form on TAB includes 400-fin times FROM SECTIONAL TIMING so some of it is there!

Thanks Rob, what I was meaning was does every sectional get released to the public , 20 runners say 4 sectionals per horse per race ?

I would guess that in Hong Kong the answer is probably yes (or why bother measuring).
I wonder when ,or if ,or how we will eventually get ours?

I am still not convinced with our sectional timing and even more so with ComputaForm....maybe Goody can have them on the show regarding times etc.

Yes Bob it does give sectionals for every single horse...and that is just the start of it...its BRILLIANT!!!! Makes it a level playing field!!!!

www.hkjc.com/english/racing/display_sect...Raceno=1&All=0#Race1

Check it out

Sectional timing is good but Trakus is even better