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Old 06-05-2009, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by philcski
What's hilarious to me is Doug's ROI, writing for the Erie Times-News, is so much better than the biggest racing coverage newspaper in the country's daily 5 handicappers (who all average worse than the takeout on their BEST meets, and play into an infinitely larger pool.)
Well, I'm a better handicapper than those guys. I think even those guys would agree if they got to know me.

But there have been some conditions at this meet so far that have been highly favorable to me.

In Week #2, 18 of the 32 races were won in wire-to-wire fashion. In week #3, 20 of the 32 races were won by either post 1 or post 2 .. and a good deal of the 12 horses who didn't win while starting from down inside got to the gold rail.

So, you've had a real constant bias in play.. and it wasn't until the very end of 3rd week that the riders started to pick up on it and ride more aggressively.

That's been a bigtime help.
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