For what it's worth, I started buying products from Dave before computer handicapping became common. I remember my first set of Pars I bought from HSH. It was a pencil-and-paper product that included instructions for making your own speed figures. It was revolutionary at the time, and I had some remarkable success with it. However, it really wouldn't have any impact today. Same as choosing pace lines. The pace module we have does this for us. I really don't know what's under the hood, and I'm not sure I would understand it if I did. The tools are there for us to use. Our interpretation of that data is central to our handicapping skills.

I have a question as it is all a learning process particularly in the design of your own software for personal use and since Dave's video's have always been of great teaching importance, I wanted to ask when it comes to Pace handicapping and discerning your par figures. My question is to clarify as I get confused during my coding particularly with large batches of past performance and results files. When a handicapper is handicapping and choosing a paceline and goes to form his figures, the question is if the last race the horse ran was a mile on the grass, is the handicapper using the mile par time to make his figures or is every horse have to use the race coming up as the par??????