AP '08 Dates Announced

[JJP]

Originally Posted by ex-specialist

I thought that Poly at Arlington played like a conveyor belt more times than not......

If the conveyor belt was in the 5th path and carrying closers.....

As for statistics, the 1 1/16 mile races on the AP Poly should be totally tossed out, since in previous years, they basically never ran them (maybe 5 in the previous 15 years combined). These races are basically handed to a speed horse on a silver platter, with the short run to the turn and the finish line at the 1/16th pole for an approxiametely 700 foot stretch run. I noticed that when they'd have a mile race taken off the turf, they'd run one of those goofy 1 1/16 mile races. I believe AP management wanted these, because they knew they would skew their statistics to make the early speed numbers a bit better. If those races were run out of the mile chute like they should've been, no doubt there would have been a noticeable change.