Can Arlington bat .400?
 

Funny how Arlington's marketing department loved to show average payoffs from the first season of Polytrack, when the majority of runners had never run on synethetic before. Now with a full 2007 meet of racing over it, favorites completely dominate. Thru May 18, favorites have been winning at a 43% rate (49 of 114 races) and every race card of the opening 3 weeks had at least 3 winning favorites.

offshoot of the Catalano effect?

A bit but I think its more that the older runners almost all have 4 or more races over the Poly so we aren't seeing the "surprises" that we did last year. It also seems the fields are a little smaller than last year.

that's true, not as much chaos this year.

they're still showing it.... was listed in the program from Sat that I had... and passed over.

Douglas is winning at an insane rate.