Glossary
Trip-Adjusted Figures
Speed figures that credit horses for the work they did, not just the time they ran.
A raw final time is a blunt instrument. A horse parked the mile, fanned three-wide on the last turn, and finished a length back ran a different race than the horse that sat the pocket and finished a length up — and a trip-adjusted figure says so.
First Over credits parked quarters (the º marks in the position calls), adjusts for ground loss, and re-pegs the figure to what the horse actually accomplished. It's the difference between scoring a runner on the scoreboard and scoring on the film.