I don't really buy into the theory that you just have to change your ways to find who wins the race...
I believe that horses have a prefferred style of running, speed, stalk, mid, or closers and that they perform optimally when they can do that...Even if a track was speed favoring that doesn't mean there's still not a possibilty for a speed duel to set up the others, it will happen even on a speed favoring track, but with this track, the off the pace horses aren't winning because the race is blowing up, they are winning, because they handle the track better and they are allowed to run with their optimum style...If you're a trainer and you're watching the races and you have a speed horse, you're probably going to tell the jock to hold back and put a speed/stalker out of their optimum running style, not to mention they probably won't like the track...I watched many races at KEE, probably 80% of them since 1999 at KEE, sure there was a good amount of them going wire to wire in most cases it was the 1 1/16th races that this happened in, because they would change the finish line in those races to be closer to the turn, but with the 6f and 7f races, if you watched alot of them it was usually a wall of horses battling to get position and not just one horse popping it, in this scenario this gave the stalkers and speed horses a chance, along with the closers to win if there's a total meltdown...I miss the old KEE, I really do, it pains me not to go down there, but I just won't have it...
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