http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/best-way-win-horse-race-mathematicians-may-have-answer

GPS data from horse races at the Chantilly track in France helped researchers come up with an ideal strategy.

Attention racehorse jockeys: Start fast, but save enough energy for a final kick. That’s the ideal strategy to win short-distance horse races, according to the first mathematical model to calculate how horses use up energy in races. The researchers say the approach could be used to identify customized pacing plans that, in theory, would optimize individual horses’ chances of winning.