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Originally Posted by cj
Isn't this really being exaggerated because no bettors are on track these days and and even higher percentage of money is coming in from very late, and particularly from CRW teams?
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I think that makes sense.
I was never one of the people who believed in past posting, or extremely late posting, or whatever you want to call it. However, anyone who can watch races for a day and say that the odds don't drop during the race more often on the winners than the losers---even longshots like that Del Mar---has to be willfully ignoring it. It even happens in bizarre ways like at Delaware the other day where 9-5 shots would go to 1-5 during the race and win. I've been recording gate loading odds for 25 years because it's something I do, looking for patterns. Did it OCCASIONALLY happen in years gone by. Sure. Did it happen three races in a row like on Monday with all three winning? No.
If it's all on the up and up, I guess a lot of us are just imagining things. We're gamblers and naturally skeptical....but that's a lot of coincidences, that we all just happened to notice the same fictional thing happening over and over.
