Race Results - Margins

General Questions
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I did a search about result margins but didn’t have any luck - so I apologize if this has been covered somewhere  :-\

Let looks at a result from Calder tonight…

Am I reading this right?? 

The race starts with Anila-Su up by 3 lengths, Doyou’ 2nd by 3 3/4, Artful’ 3rd by 2 1/2, Noble’ 4th by 3 3/3 and then Flood Watch 5th by 136 1/4 lengths!!?
That’s about 1090’ lead over Mystic’ (assuming 96" length per average tbred)
That’s over a furlong ahead of the 6th place horse.  :astonished:
??  Or am I reading it wrong??

The dashes mean what?  Maybe what ‘dis’ would indicate in a racing form?

I see that Flood Watch lost 79 1/4 lengths to the leader in the last 2 furlongs.  (was dead heat at the 10F call and then 20.5+15.75+43 behind the horses ahead of him at the line.)
If I read that right, he lost 637’ over the course of the final 1320’ - so Anila-Su ran twice as fast?  Flood Watch must have really ran out of gas :slight_smile:

My horses have yet to run a race - but I was hoping to be able to read the results properly when they come in Saturday.
Sorry for the rookie questions.  ::)

2

The dashes represent no margin, as they’re supposed to be for the horse in last place.

Wacky margins are a known bug.

3

OK.

I see that the 4th and 6th both have dashes at the final.
…and there are 2 DNF at 10F that recover to finish in the race.
Are those the bugs or are all the margins off??

4

Those are the bugs, as well as the 136 length thing. :wink: