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Originally Posted by Dunbar
With the possible exception of CL's picks at PID! That's an amazing record, CL--a positive ROI on 2400 races?!. That's Gehrig-esque.
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Junior Alvarado had ridden in over 3,700 career races and his mounts show a flat bet ROI profit... and he's pretty much stuck with whatever he gets to ride and doesn't have the kind of options a handicapper would.
Ramon Dominguez -- when he rode in the Mid Atlantic -- he went 9 out of 10 years with a flat-bet profit in turf races...and almost always a 10% or more. And jockeys are way down the list as far as handicapping factors go.
I don't fish very often for huge top-pick prices with the newspaper pics because win percentage is one of the two main goals...but each year I've been lucky to catch a mega bomb or two when I have.
The bias played a major factor in almost all of the big prices.