Sectionals come into their own at Royal Ascot - and these are the horses my watch has stopped on

A Racing Post analyst highlights Royal Ascot as the prime occasion for using sectional times to evaluate racehorses, particularly lightly raced two-year-olds and three-year-olds stepping up in class. The piece emphasizes that sectional data helps quantify performances from horses who have won maiden races at lesser tracks, where form can be difficult to assess. The central principle offered is that smart horses can produce either fast or ordinary sectional times, but ordinary horses cannot produce fast ones.