Racetracks should start measuring wind direction

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

It would have been pretty easy to have arranged these races so that two routes appeared on the same day and I wonder what the reasoning behind it was (or if the racing office even noticed).

I've heard it said before by racing officals there years ago that people who come to the track "like the two-turn dirt races the most" because they start right in front of the crowd.

Obviously, it's the total opposite for handicappers. You hate seeing a single isolated stand-alone race because they're a pain in the ass to gauge when you review them after the race is over.

I don't think you can ask them to try and stack days up where they run 3 or 4 of these races a day - and than have long gaps where they go several days without running any.... but, if they're going to keep up this one-a-day dirt route trend ... having wind direction information becomes even more useful.