Track at Saratoga Far Different Now

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Scav

You use times of races to help?

I don't necessarily use times. It just depends. Just because a tracks is slow, it doesn't necessarily mean that speed won't hold. By the same token, I've seen lightening fast tracks that play very fair. I don't think there are any rules that you can rely on 100% of the time. In general, it seems that the really fast tracks favor speed more, but not always.

In the case of Saratoga, I think the generalization of a faster track favoring speed is probably accurate. The track appears to be deep and tiring right now and looks to be conducive to come-from-behinders. At the begining of the meet, the speed was holding. If you look at the times being run at the begiining of the meet compared to right now, I think the track was quite a bit faster at the beginning of the meet. So I do think that in the case of Saratoga, the faster the track is, the more it favors speed.