Track at Saratoga Far Different Now

[Rupert Pupkin]

The track at Saratoga is far different now than it was at the beginning of the meet. The track is deep and tiring right now. There is really almost what I would call an anti-speed bias. The first few days of the meet was the opposite. It was very hard to close ground the first few days of the meet. There was definitely a speed-bias the first few days of the meet. It was the opposite last year. Last year the tracks was deep and tiring the first few days of the meet.

For people who are serious handicappers that bet big money, it is very important to take notes every day and make notes as to how the track is playing. There are many tracks such as Saratoga that can change quite a bit from day to day. It gives you a big edge as a handicapper if you can go back and check your notes and see how a track was playing on a certain day.

Recognizing tracks biases is not necessarily that easy. You obviously have to know what you're looking at. One horse going to wire to wire doesn't prove that there is a speed bias.