A Bit About Track Bias (Dirt)

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by bellsbendboy

A week or so ago there was a thread asking what a float was and how/why is it used? With apologies to the few veterans who will find this redundant, I thought i would expand on that topic.

The track will stay compressed or "sealed" until the rain subsides, which may take a day or two. How should cappers play a sealed track? Cautiously. Cappers know most horses detest the surface as they bring some 5,000 pounds per square inch at impact and it is almost certainly uneven to them, appears a mirror and the bottom is hard to detect. Jockeys have even more disdain but that is another matter. If pressed, or I had to play, I would downgrade the chances of both the inside and the outside horses, give horses that have won on a sealed surface extra scrutiny and play horses being bet.

That was me who started that topic and I thank you for such a well-expained post on the subject. Although I'm one of those $35 a week bettors I still care a lot about becoming a better handicapper and increasing my knowledge of the game and that really helped.

Is there any way from looking at the PP's which horses had won on a sealed surface?