The Value of leading at the 1st call on dirt

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

In a sample of 201,268 North American dirt races on file ...

A total of 1,470,616 starters failed to make the lead at the 1st call. They yielded an ROI of $1.32 .. meaning if you bet $100 on each one you'd be down over $50 million.

The 201,268 horses who led at the first call yielded an ROI of $3.12. Meaning that if you bet $100 on each of them - you'd be ahead by over $11.27 million dollars.

I know you know this is a skewed stat to the point where it's meaningless.