Hollywood's First Cushion Track Meet

The first cushion track meeting at Hollywood produced larger fields, larger purses and an increase in handle. Hollywood experienced at 19% increase in wagering. The avg field size was up 13% which equates to 8.5 starters per race. This increase reversed a 7 year per race starter decline. There are more numbers in the article in bloodhorse.com; below is the link to the story.

So far every meet with a synthetic surface has produced increase handle and increase starters per race. I, for one, could not grasp handicapping Hollywood but I did get some pretty good notes and I think I will be wagering Hollywood in the summer. I think we have some good "testing" tracks for the synthetic surfaces. Lets see how these tracks do in the next 2-4 years and then we can decide if a synthetic surface is a good idea or not.