Could This Be An Angle ?

[Hoofhearted]

Gents,
As usual watching this evening's U.S. racing, and I couldn't help but notice the number of wins by horses running at lesser tracks whose last-time-out run was on the Tapeta surface at Presque Isle.
Examples:
"Sir Bubba" 7/1 winner of the 5th at Finger Lakes;
"The Cuff Shooter" 1/1 winner of the 6th at Finger Lakes;
"Pendulum" 7/2 winner of the 5th at Delaware;
and a few others ............ all of whom raced last-time-out at Presque Isle.

I dunno, maybe this particular evening was a "spike", but I intend to keep an eye on this aspect in future.

[tbwinner]

See this thread...

http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74237

Certainly has produced some bombs. Requires a lot of reading the PPs of the nationwide tracks to find PID shippers.

[jballscalls]

same thing happens at Tampa Bay Downs at the start of their meet with Hawthorne shippers.. atleast it did a couple years ago

[Charli125]

I remember seeing the same thing at KEE either last year or the year before.

[Robert Goren]

It pays to keep track of where the winners come from at the start of a meet. A word of caution, it is not always the same place every year.

[Valuist]

FG shippers heading north. This varies year to year but I think there is something to be said for horses who've been racing over tiring surfaces (i.e. Tapeta at Presque Isle definitely qualifies) and move to a more speed favoring surface.