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Originally Posted by Brisk Urging
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CAW money has been avoiding the win pools at NYRA tracks ever since they were restricted from betting close to post time. But they are in the exotics pools, betting them according to their algorithms. That's why the prices on exotics can seem out of whack with the win prices - it's no longer one big market, but in essence two separate markets.
What's going on is GOOD for the "regular" horseplayer - the NYRA win pools have more stable odds from open to "race off"(and AFTER race off, when the last flash money shows), and you're playing against more of the crowd you used to play against rather than the 900-pound gorilla.
EDIT (I was still composing while TLG was posting) - "What TLG said"
