GP Timer VS Trakus time so far this meet

[Calzone Lord]

Obviously you're talking about two different methods of timing being used.

With the offical timer, you have something that is tripped by a beam when a nose of a horse passes a set position.

With Trakus -- you have a device about the size of a credit card inserted into the saddle cloth timing races by sending signals to antennas.

In the first two days of GP -- there have been 7 turf races at 8f carded at Gulfstream:

8f T:

Trakus time was 0.16 slower than offical time
Trakus time was 0.15 slower than offical time
Trakus time was 0.15 slower than offical time
Trakus time was 0.17 slower than offical time
Trakus time was 0.14 slower than offical time
Trakus time was 0.12 slower than offical time
Trakus time was 0.15 slower than offical time



So far - there have been two races run at 7 furlongs on dirt:

7f D:

Trakus time was 0.16 faster than offical time
Trakus time was 0.16 faster than offical time

Here are what the two 7f races look when broken down by fractions:

GP Timer: 23.06 - 22.76 - 24.46 - 12:73 = 1:23.01
Trakus T: 22.89 - 22.79 - 24.42 - 12.75 = 1:22.85

GP Timer: 22.29 - 22.43 - 24.01 - 12:84 = 1:21.57
Trakus T: 22.13 - 22.45 - 23.99 - 12:84 = 1:21.41


So far there have been two races at 5.5 furlongs.

5.5f D:

Trakus time was 0.01 faster than offical timer
Trakus time was 0.01 slower than offical timer


There have been three races at 6f:

6f D:

Trakus time was 0.20 faster than offical time
Trakus time was 0.13 faster than offical time
Trakus time was 0.25 faster than offical time

3 races at the new 8.5 furlong distance:

8.5f D:

Trakus time was 0.45 faster than offical time
Trakus time was 0.78 faster than offical time
Trakus time was 0.67 faster than offical time


And finally two at 8 furlongs on dirt... in one of them the offical timer did not work and mysterious fractions were posted in the result chart.


8f D:

Trackus 0.20 slower
Trackus 0.88 slower (The offical Timer did not work during the running of this race)