IT never ceases to amaze me when people say that “times mean nothing in racing”. You could replace the word “times” with the word “speed” (distance divided by time) or “lengths” (a distance covered in a finite amount of time) and the oddity of the initial statement becomes even more apparent.

For what is racing but a manifestation of which horse runs quicker or slower than another and by how much it beats or gets beaten by another, both of which can be expressed in terms of time?