From the above you may deduce that I don’t believe that the other tracks vary from one another. This is not true of course. There are many other tracks which have their own variants but the variants are too small to take not of. A good consistent horse can run the same time at most tracks over the equivalent distance. What we are concerned about is those courses and distances where a large track variant is the norm. In the examples to follow you will see how, combined with other factors, the track variants work out in practice.

Some caution is warranted when you note that even low class horse are recording fast times consistently at a track. Conversely, the Broadmeadow track is considered by many to be a slow track/. This did not stop the Golden Slipper winner Marauding from establishing a track record of 1.9.5 there.