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The oldman is about to show his ignorance. Is there anywhere in the pps that indicate if a track is favoring front runners or closers? I always assumed you needed to reasearch the races and come up with that on your own. I have been using the drf for years and was not aware of any info for this in the drf pps.

you'd generally have to follow the races on your own as far as i am aware -- or i've been missing out on it too!

that's why the best method is, and always will be to follow only one or two circuits meticulously so that you can have a better line on what's happening on the day to day. unless you are independently wealthy and you can afford to spend all day following several circuits

Or like me indepentantly stupid. I sometimes catch myself ,after a loosing bet, looking at the various moniters to determine where the next race is going off so I can throw my small bet away.

i know that i used to do that when i was maybe 18 when i was first going to the track on a regular basis. needless to say i lost a lot of money in that year or so before i really refined my handicapping -- or at least as much as you can have refined it by 23. Spot playing has been the saving grace of my wagering bankroll. It was hard for me to get used to it, sometimes sitting at a simulcast hall all day and playing three, maybe four bets. Picking my spots on circuits I am familiar with is all I do now -- mostly Chicago and Kentucky.

Same time, I couldn't hit a bet in California to save my life, save one pick-4 I hit this past Spring worth $1600. Which probably just evened me out in California for my life :)

And New York makes no sense to me either. I am used to Midwest racing so I stick to it, following all the races at Arlington, Hawthorne, Keeneland and Churchill way too methodically and it's done wonders.

That was a long way of saying that refining it and picking spots has helped me a ton, with biases and trends as well like you had originally asked about

you familiar with track variant in the drf pp's? if not learn about it. also a racereplays.com account never hurts