Isn't it much better for those who play multiple tracks to have "quirky" post times rather than having Belmont, Woodbine, Monmouth, Gulfstream and Churchill all going off at 1:00?
When racing secretaries have to schedule the post times of 13 races, I'm sure that they try to do a bit of juggling to fit them all into the afternoon of racing and not overlap with key races from other jurisdictions. That can help improve the handle, which is everyone's goal. From what I have seen, though, once the first race has been run, it is unusual for the rest of the card to go off precisely on the scheduled time. At Gulfstream, for example, when zero minutes to post comes up, the horses might just be entering the track and won't go off for at least another 7 or 8 minutes.
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