THE comparative sectional times for the three chases run over two miles and six and a half furlongs at Galway on Monday make for interesting reading.

These are hand-timed sectionals from the recordings, so there is a significant margin of error but, at least with races over jumps, you can start and stop when horses land over obstacles, which is a more accurate way to be going about things than trying to take rudimentary readings from marker points on the flat. (The guy with the yellow jacket on the inside of the track always moves.)