Can Arlington bat .400?

JJP · #1 05-26-2008, 02:48 PM

Funny how Arlington's marketing department loved to show average payoffs from the first season of Polytrack, when the majority of runners had never run on synethetic before. Now with a full 2007 meet of racing over it, favorites completely dominate. Thru May 18, favorites have been winning at a 43% rate (49 of 114 races) and every race card of the opening 3 weeks had at least 3 winning favorites.

ArlJim78 · #2 05-26-2008, 02:54 PM

offshoot of the Catalano effect?

JJP · #3 05-26-2008, 02:59 PM

A bit but I think its more that the older runners almost all have 4 or more races over the Poly so we aren't seeing the "surprises" that we did last year. It also seems the fields are a little smaller than last year.

ArlJim78 · #4 05-26-2008, 03:04 PM

that's true, not as much chaos this year.

jwkniska · #5 05-26-2008, 03:49 PM

they're still showing it.... was listed in the program from Sat that I had... and passed over.

JJP · #6 05-26-2008, 04:35 PM

Douglas is winning at an insane rate.