What is called 'False Rails'; in Horse Racing? It is always mentioned in 'Tip Books', that 'false rails .......?

about 2 mtrs inlength/one metre in length in position from some metres ( 100/200) till Winning Post'. How a Punter is benefitted by this information? Or it is for the Jockeys?What is called 'False Rails'; in Horse Racing? It is always mentioned in 'Tip Books', that 'false rails .......?
A false rail is generally in place to protect the horse and spectators since the perminant rail may cause injury or break away. The significance of noting the rail distance is that the race course is measured without the rail. So if a race is run at one mile and a quarter (sorry, I don't know the metrics) and the rail is out 10 feet (or so many meters), the race time or training time would be slower than if the race was run with the rail out 5 feet. At least in the USA, rails are adjusted to let the grass on part of the most inner course regrow, particularly after races have been run on soft ground.





I don't know if it's true outside of the USA, but USA tracks sometimes keep horses in workouts even further away from the rail using cones called ';dogs';. Running around the dogs will slow the workout time considerably so it is worth noting if the workout included dogs or notWhat is called 'False Rails'; in Horse Racing? It is always mentioned in 'Tip Books', that 'false rails .......?
False rails are more or less placed parallelly along the permanat rails in race course. I have also seen them in the Tip books and also seen in the race courses. I understand that it is placed to slow down a race for only one reason by placing fales rails the Bend becomes narrower and sharper. This is to the advantage of smaller built horses. Moreover, they complicate comparison of races when a horse runs on a false rails up day against its run on a free day.





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