Having some type of system where you guage the bias from day-to-day is very important. I use Steve Klein's bias numbers that I compute on my own. Others may have more advanced or perfected systems.
Trips are obviously important for all of the typical reasons, i.e. going wide on the inner is generally a death sentence.
For the better part of the meet last year the track was fair, however, when there was a bias it usually lasted for a week. It was also quite surprising that days where the track was wet it often played fairly, if not tilted towards late runners. For example, the bias rating on a very sloppy track on 3/8 (Gotham day) was only 80 out of 300. On February 1, which happened to be the first wet track in three weeks, the rating was a 129. From February 6-February 10, the rating was well over 200, with a peak being 250 on Friday February 8, where 5 of 8 winners went wire-to-wire.
As for December of last year, there were no days that stuck out as particularly biased except for when racing returned after Christmas. The 12/26 track was the most biased of the inner track meet where 7 of 8 winners went wire-to-wire, including Buddy's Holiday and Unbreelievable, who are winless since.
As was mentioned also, Dominguez wins a lot of races. I hear Garcia is headed to Fla, so look for Dominguez to now COMPLETELY dominate. None of the apprentices are particularly impressive, and I'm not a CC Lopez fan.
Good luck!
NT
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