ONE of the advantages of time analysis is that you can make precise comparisons between horses running in different races on the same day, especially if you can break down overall times into their constituent parts.

So it is that we know Sea Of Class ran York’s 12 furlongs in a time 0.78s (a bit under five lengths) faster overall in Thursday’s Darley Yorkshire Oaks than Lah Ti Dar did in the Galtres Stakes 40 minutes later, and that the majority of that difference came in the final three furlongs.