Horse Racing Wonderlic Test

[Calzone Lord]

This will test how well you can read common horse racing stuff and how well you can do common horse racing math...as well as how fast you can think under pressure.


Get a pen and paper. Give yourself five minutes to answer these six questions. See how many you can get correct in five minutes.


Go.


1. Willyconker wins and pays $23.00 to win. 0.80-to-1 favorite Mr Commons finishes 2nd. The $2 exacta returns $48.00

True or false -- people who bet Willyconker to win could have had better than even money odds on Mr. Commons beating the remainder of the field for 2nd place in an exacta wager?


2. A Moss Pace Figure of 56 is equal to a Beyer figure of 0. A Moss Pace figure of 100 is equal to a Beyer figure of 120.12

Each Moss Pace figure point is equal to 2.73 Beyer Points. A Moss Pace figure of 72 equals a Beyer figure of what?

A) 38.22 B) 43.68 C) 82.18 D) 91.44


3. Settle For Medal goes wire-to-wire in a 6.5 furlong race through fractions of 23.34 - 46.48 - 1:11.80 - and 1:18.53.

How fast did he run his final 5/16ths of a mile?

A. 6.73 seconds B. 32.05 seconds C. 55.19 seconds D. 23.34 seconds


4. Todd Pletcher had 137 first-time starters race in 2011. He won with 31 of them for a 22.6% win percentage. His $2 ROI with them was $1.52

If you bet $100 on every Pletcher first-time starter in 2011 how much money would you be up or down?

A) Down $3,562 B) Down $7,124 C) Up $585 D) Down $3,288


5. Boldly wins the first leg of the pick 3 and pays $25.00 - Sing It Again wins the second leg and pays $10.00 - Tap'n My Toes wins the third leg and pays $60.00 What would the 3-race win parlay pay?

A.) $3,750 B) $15,000 C) $7,500 D) $95.00


6. On both Thoro-Graph and Ragozin Sheets -- each path of ground loss on a turn equals one length. Also, 5lbs carried at five furlongs equals 1 length.

Secret Circle races 3 wide on the first turn and 3 wide on the second turn and carries 122lbs. Optimizer races 1 wide on the first turn and 3 wide on the second turn and carries 115lbs. Secret Circle defeats Optimizer by 0.75 lengths going 8.5 furlongs.

Secret Circle will receive a Sheets figure how much faster than Optimizer?

A) 2.75 lengths faster B) 4.15 lengths faster C) 5.13 lengths faster D) 6.08 lengths faster





ANSWERS ARE BELOW.....














1.) True
2.) B
3.) B
4.) D
5.) A
6.) C

[MaTH716]

7) Doug's girlfriend must either be........
a) on the rag and he doesn't want to be bothered
b) out of town for the holiday weekend
c) on the way to Subway to secure dinner for her king
d) they are no longer together

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

7) Doug's girlfriend must either be........
a) on the rag and he doesn't want to be bothered
b) out of town for the holiday weekend
c) on the way to Subway to secure dinner for her king
d) they are no longer together

She has class until 8pm tonight and she works full time. I get a ton of free time.

But yeah, everything is going swell between us.




Anyway, how'd you do on the test? Anyone who couldn't get number three right is hopeless.

[VOL JACK]

Just when I thought I knew how to calculate a parlay..

[knickslions2]

Now I know how Vince Young feels

[Indian Charlie]

Your wording on a couple of the questions was pretty poor.

For instance, in question #1, even though I think I understood what you were trying to ask, the way the question was worded, well, obviously $48 for $2 is greater than even money.

#2. If a Moss pt is 2.73 Bsf pts, then rest assured, a 72 Moss would be much higher than 43ish.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

#2. If a Moss pt is 2.73 Bsf pts, then rest assured, a 72 Moss would be much higher than 43ish.

Read the question again...

"A Moss Pace Figure of 56 is equal to a Beyer figure of 0. A Moss Pace figure of 100 is equal to a Beyer figure of 120.12

Each Moss Pace figure point is equal to 2.73 Beyer Points. A Moss Pace figure of 72 equals a Beyer figure of what?

A) 38.22 B) 43.68 C) 82.18 D) 91.44"


A Moss Pace Fig of 56 equals a Beyer of 0.

A Moss Pace Fig of 57 equals a Beyer of 2.73

58 = 5.46
59= 8.19
60= 10.92
61= 13.65
72= 43.68
100 = 120.14

The Moss scale was setup that way so horses didn't run a bunch of negative figures in slower paced races.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

For instance, in question #1, even though I think I understood what you were trying to ask, the way the question was worded, well, obviously $48 for $2 is greater than even money.

Here is the question again ...

"1. Willyconker wins and pays $23.00 to win. 0.80-to-1 favorite Mr Commons finishes 2nd. The $2 exacta returns $48.00

True or false -- people who bet Willyconker to win could have had better than even money odds on Mr. Commons beating the remainder of the field for 2nd place in an exacta wager?"

People who bet Willyconker to win recieved $23 for $2. If Mr. Commons was exactly even money odds to beat the remainder of the field for 2nd place ... the exacta would have paid exactly $46.00

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

Just when I thought I knew how to calculate a parlay..

Here is the question:

5. Boldly wins the first leg of the pick 3 and pays $25.00 - Sing It Again wins the second leg and pays $10.00 - Tap'n My Toes wins the third leg and pays $60.00 What would the 3-race win parlay pay?

A.) $3,750 B) $15,000 C) $7,500 D) $95.00


If you bet $2 to win on Boldly you would get $25.00

If you bet that $25 to win on Sing It Again ... $25 on a 4/1 shot gets you back $125

If you bet $125 to win on Tap'n My Toes ... a $125 win bet on a horse who pays $60 gets you $3,750

Thus, the answer is A.

[Cannon Shell]

This test was culturally biased...

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

6. On both Thoro-Graph and Ragozin Sheets -- each path of ground loss on a turn equals one length. Also, 5lbs carried at five furlongs equals 1 length.

Secret Circle races 3 wide on the first turn and 3 wide on the second turn and carries 122lbs. Optimizer races 1 wide on the first turn and 3 wide on the second turn and carries 115lbs. Secret Circle defeats Optimizer by 0.75 lengths going 8.5 furlongs.

Secret Circle will receive a Sheets figure how much faster than Optimizer?

A) 2.75 lengths faster B) 4.15 lengths faster C) 5.13 lengths faster D) 6.08 lengths faster

This answer is 5.13 lengths because 0.75 + 2.00 + 2.38 = 5.13

0.75 lengths is the margin SC beat Optimizer by.

2 lengths is added because SC ran two paths wider than Opt on the turns.

2.38 lengths is added because SC carried 7 pounds more over 8.5 furlongs of ground.

Basically sheet figures are a lot more simple to calculate than people think.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

4. Todd Pletcher had 137 first-time starters race in 2011. He won with 31 of them for a 22.6% win percentage. His $2 ROI with them was $1.52

If you bet $100 on every Pletcher first-time starter in 2011 how much money would you be up or down?

A) Down $3,562 B) Down $7,124 C) Up $585 D) Down $3,288

This is 137 starters X $100 = $13,700

A $1.52 ROI means a 24% loss on each dollar bet.

24% of $13,700 = $3,288 in the negative column.

[Thunder Gulch]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

This test was culturally biased...

[Clip-Clop]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Here is the question again ...

"1. Willyconker wins and pays $23.00 to win. 0.80-to-1 favorite Mr Commons finishes 2nd. The $2 exacta returns $48.00

True or false -- people who bet Willyconker to win could have had better than even money odds on Mr. Commons beating the remainder of the field for 2nd place in an exacta wager?"

People who bet Willyconker to win recieved $23 for $2. If Mr. Commons was exactly even money odds to beat the remainder of the field for 2nd place ... the exacta would have paid exactly $46.00

Doesn't the math on this vary based on the pools? I get the math in theory but I was under the impression that one pool had very little (perception) mathematical effect on the other.

[Antitrust32]

perfect score Thank the RTIP for that lol

though I had to make an educated guess for the last question... I became very bored halfway through the math.

[philcski]

I did, in fact, get a perfect score in 2:17 minutes.

Which means I have a gambling problem.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by philcski

I did, in fact, get a perfect score in 2:17 minutes.

Which means I have a gambling problem.

I just hope that it didn't take you 34 years, 2 months and 4 days to figure that out.

[phystech]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

I just hope that it didn't take you 34 years, 2 months and 4 days to figure that out.

It did....

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

I just hope that it didn't take you 34 years, 2 months and 4 days to figure that out.

LOL

[Conrad]

My answers will be coming shortly.
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I'm calling Morris Claiborne