Your Race Shapes. Ugh!

[JohnTChance]

This is just a short note to say what I\'ve been thinking, but not saying, for a long time now:

I love the ThoroGraphs, but I\'m not a fan of your Thoro-Graph Race Shapes, where you graph projections for where horses figure to be after a quarter mile in a race. I think they, well… suck. Too often (that\'s every time I glance at them), they\'re just downright wrong and misleading.

Just one example of zillions: In yesterday\'s La Jolla Handicap, your Race Shapes projected that FREAKIN ROCKET would have (what?...) a 6 length lead over the field early! And that ROSENGOLD (he with the 34.3 recent work) would be strictly second tier out of the gate. It\'s really pretty preposterous.

Just saying.

[TGJB]

They\'re not projections. They\'re history, like al PP data. And riders and instructions affect what horses do.

[Rich Curtis]

And in the DRF before the race, Freakin Rocket\'s trainer said he wanted to see his horse stalking.