Each dog’s time of its last 6 races..

should be taken off the race card and entered on the laminated plastic covered graph.

Here is an example of, say, dog No1 time over several months :-

6th Jan 06--- 26.40
28th Dec 05---25.85
15th Dec 05---26.61
1st Dec 05 ----26.18
14thNov 05 --27.02
3rd Nov 05 ---27.09 <- Start here!

Note the time for dog No 1 which is listed at the bottom of the column of calculated times. (It is called the calculated time because the actual time has been adjusted to include the condition of the racing surface – the ‘going’ in essence).

You must work upwards in date line order.

START to plot the dots by locating the time that you have noted on the TIME line and place a dot on first vertical line; which is Race 1. Add more ‘time’ dots for Race 2; Race 3 Race 4; Race 5; and Race 6. Join up the dots to make the peaks and troughs of greyhound No1’s performance. This will complete one tiny graph.

Carry out the same procedure for the greyhound No 2; No3; No 4; No 5 and No 6. to make five more tiny graphs.

This dog graph can only be used for a race where all the previous races have been over the same distance. If any race has been over a different distance to the race you are plotting the race in question should be left off the graph!

Please note you can print off the full size graph (18 x18 centimetres) if you edit with Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft Photo Editor.

More on the next blog...

Come racing!!